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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A A T C H A P E L H I L L S C H O O L O F N U R S I N G • S u m m e r 2 0 0 4
Carolina
NURSING
Dear Alumni and Friends,
I hope this summer finds you in
good health, among the people who
love and support you, and with
whom you find comfort. Many of
you will take a much needed respite
from the intensity of your work by
vacationing at the North Carolina
seashore or in the cool of the moun-tains.
Summertime has traditionally
been considered by many of us on
the faculty and staff as a welcome
interlude between May, when classes
end, and August, when students spill
back onto campus to start the aca-demic
year. Indeed, the pulse quick-ens
for these 10 months, but the
rhythm of life and learning at your
School of Nursing has likely
changed since you graduated or
last visited with us.
On Saturday, May 8, we graduat-ed
over 160 BSN, MSN and PhD
students. We then turned around on
Monday, May 10, to welcome 43 stu-dents
into the third cohort to begin
the accelerated 14-month BSN pro-gram
for people who already hold a
baccalaureate degree in another
field. Over Memorial Day Weekend,
faculty worked into the night to
write and edit research grants that
were due the first week in June.
Their nationally acclaimed research
to help patients manage the pain
from cancer, to reduce Type II dia-betes
in adults and children, to help
low income mothers with depression
symptoms help themselves, and to
assess the health of pre-term
infants, to name just a few areas of
expertise, depends upon external
support. I’m pleased to tell you that
we just received word from the
National Institutes of Health that
your SON is now ranked third in the
nation for the research that we do.
The pace and rhythm of
Carrington Hall has changed signif-icantly
from previous years when we
did not admit students in May.
Admission at your School of
Nursing has become a year-round
endeavor so we can do our part to
help educate more nurses to allevi-ate
the shortage, which you will
read more about in this issue of CN.
We are now considering how we can
admit more students to attend the
24-month program by going to
twice a year admissions, thereby
increasing our total enrollments
from 160 to over 200 students in
both the traditional and accelerated
programs. This will mean making
some scheduling adaptations for
curriculum and clinical site experi-ences.
Currently, we must turn away
many qualified students who desire
a baccalaureate nursing education
and seek admission at our School.
We simply do not have sufficient
funds to hire additional faculty and
staff members. And, until the new
building is complete, there is limit-ed
space for expansion. We hope
this will change and we are working
fervently toward the goal of increas-ing
our BSN student admissions.
As a leading SON in the nation,
one of our key roles is to provide
advanced education to create the
faculty who will teach future stu-dents
throughout North Carolina.
With critical resource support, we
will be better able to tell more stu-dents
and their families that they
have been accepted to the SON. Our
priority is to help meet a myriad of
health care demands that our
friends, loved ones, and neighbors
will face here in North Carolina and
in other parts of the nation and
world.
I want to take this opportunity
to thank each of you for what you
do—and will continue to do—
to open your hearts to Carolina
and the School of Nursing. We are
unable to fulfill our promise to pro-vide
excellent nursing education,
science, and care without you.
Sincerely,
LINDA R. CRONENWETT, PHD, RN, FAAN
Dean
FROM THEDean
Carolina Nursing is published by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Nursing for the School’s alumni and friends.
Dean
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor
Sunny Smith Nelson
Contributing Writers
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and Annual Fund
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School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summer 2004 Carolina
NURSING
IN THIS ISSUE
6 The Nursing Shortage in North Carolina
8 Opening the Doors of Opportunity: Scholarships that Support
the Future of Nursing
12 From Pen and Paper to Bricks and Mortar: A Chat with
Maggie Miller about the New Building Addition
14 Building Our Future: A Construction Progress Report
18 Nurses Appreciation Day: A Tribute to Our Alums with
Support from Johnson & Johnson
REGULAR FEATURES
2 Roll Call
3 SONdries
16 Noteworthy Nurses
19 Alumni News
22 Development News
26 Alumni Notes
27 Calendar of Events
On the Cover: Ed (AB ’54) and Rae (BSN ’55) Starnes, longtime Carolina
supporters, recently donated two of Ed’s original watercolors to hang in
Carrington Hall and the new building addition. Pictured here is University Day,
a tribute to the people and landmarks that make UNC such a special place.
With a gift to the building fund, you can receive your complimentary copy of
this special painting. See page 25 for more information.
Dr. Linda Beeber
was recognized this
spring as an “emerg-ing
nursing research
star” at the 10th
Annual M. Elizabeth
Carnegie Research
Conference at Howard University in
Washington, DC. She was among only a
handful of nursing researchers recog-nized
for their dedication to reducing
health disparities.
Beth Black was recently awarded the
2004 Mickel-Shaw Excellence in
Advising Award from UNC’s College of
Arts and Sciences and the General
College. This award is based on nomi-nations
by students and is awarded by
the deans of the colleges to one aca-demic
advisor each year for outstanding
work with undergraduate student
advisees.
Congratulations to
Stewart Bond, a
student in the SON
doctoral program and
UNC’s Certificate in
Aging program, who
was one of only six to
win a presentation award at The Aging
Exchange. The event, sponsored by
the UNC Institute on Aging and other
university departments, was created to
recognize the research, education and
service performed at UNC on behalf of
the elderly. Bond’s paper, co-authored
with Drs. Virginia Neelon, Michael
Belyea and doctoral student Su Hyun
Kim, focused on delirium resolution in
older hospitalized cancer patients.
Dr. Barbara Waag
Carlson has been
honored with the 2004
Gordon H. DeFriese
Career Development in
Aging Research Award.
The award is given
annually to recognize outstanding
research and teaching accomplish-ments
in aging research at UNC.
Carlson, an assistant professor and
associate director of the School’s
Biobehavioral Lab, is studying how
events during sleep contribute to cogni-tive
decline in older adults. Carlson is a
double SON alumna, having received
her MSN in 1990 and PhD in 1997.
Dr. Margaret Clayton, a 2003 doc-toral
alumna and current postdoctoral
fellow at the SON, won the Top Young
Scholar Award from the Kentucky
Conference on Health Communication.
The award, sponsored by the Health
Communication Division of the
National Communication Association,
the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Office of Communication,
and the University of Kentucky
Department of Communication, honors
an exceptional researcher who has
earned a doctoral degree in the past five
years. Clayton presented her paper
“Testing a model of communication,
uncertainty and emotional well-being
in older breast cancer survivors” during
the conference at the University of
Kentucky in April.
Congratulations to Dr.
Martha Henderson,
co-recipient of the
American Journal of
Nursing Book of the
Year Award for 2003.
Henderson, the first
author, with UNC co-authors Dr. Laura
C. Hanson and Dr. Kimberly S.
Reynolds, published Improving
Nursing Home Care of the Dying: A
Training Manual for Nursing Home
Staff. The book was chosen as one of
the most valuable nursing texts of 2003
and one of only three recipients in the
gerontological nursing category.
Clinical instructor
Eileen Horn is the
recipient of the UNC
Access Award, an honor
given to faculty who
have shown exception-al
support and under-standing
in their work with students
who have learning disabilities or atten-tion
deficit disorders. The award is pre-sented
annually by the University’s
Learning Disabilities Services
Department.
Congratulations to
Brant Nix, this year’s
Staff of the Year Award
winner. Nix, who is the
SON’s Biobehavioral
Lab manager and bio-medical
technologist,
has been with the School since January
2000. One nomination said of Nix,
“He takes a leadership role in the devel-opment
and standardization of new
technology and has made unique
contributions to several research studies
adapting equipment in special ways
that allows the investigator to gather
data in the field reliably and with fewer
burdens to the research subjects.”
Dr. Anne Skelly has been awarded
the first Distinguished Alumna of the
Year Award from the State University of
New York at Buffalo School of Nursing
in recognition of her work in diabetes
scholarship and research. She graduat-ed
from the university with her BSN in
1976, MSN in 1979 and PhD in 1992.
2 CAROLINA NURSING
ROLL CALL
Beeber Waag Carlson
Nix
Horn
Henderson
Bond
New Faculty
and Faculty
Promotions
Dr. Linda Brown has been
promoted from clinical
assistant professor to clinical
associate professor.
Dr. Donna Havens has
been promoted to professor
with tenure.
Robin Corbett is the SON’s
newest visiting assistant
clinical professor.
Jo Ann Hendricks is the
new health-care coordinator
with the Central Orange
Adult Day Health Center in
Hillsborough, NC. Hendricks
was hired through the SON
to provide part-time care to
the Center’s daily visitors.
New clinical instructors
include Lindsay Allen,
Christine Benson,
Jeanne Brown, Colleen
Glair-Gajewski, Angela
Lee, Janet Morton,
Ruth Ouimette and
Jennie Wagner.
New research instructors
include Phyllis Kennel.
Does race really
matter when it
comes to providing
quality skin and
wound care? This is
a question that Dr.
Courtney H. Lyder,
the University of Virginia Medical
Center professor of nursing and
internal medicine, has spent his
career trying to answer.
Lyder spent a week in Chapel
Hill this February as the SON’s 2004
ethnic minority visiting scholar
speaking with students, faculty,
alumni and nursing colleagues
about the issue. As a senior consult-ant
on skin and wound care issues
for the US Department of Health
and Human Services and the
nation’s first African American man
to hold an endowed professorship in
nursing, many of the folks he spoke
with said he offered a unique
insight into wound care for minori-ties.
According to Lyder, processes of
care appear to depend on race, with
more people of color suffering from
skin and wound care problems. The
cause, he says, includes a dearth of
race-related skin and wound care
research and assessment techniques
that do not include a melanocentric
perspective. With the US population
continuing to “brown” as minori-ties
make up a greater proportion of
the citizenry, the concern over the
issue is expected to grow. The solu-tion?
More research on the issue
and a commitment by nurses to
learn the importance of caring for
all skin types.
SUMMER 2004 3
SONDRIES
Noted skin, wound care treatment specialist visits
SON to share expertise
Dr. Jo Ann Dalton was honored for her School of Nursing service, scholar-ship
and research at the 2004 Kemble Lecture. Pictured here (left to right)
are SON faculty chair Dr. Mary Lynn; Dr. Dalton; Dean Linda Cronenwett;
and featured speaker Dr. Betty Ferrell, seated.
Lyder
When many of Dr. Jo Ann
Dalton’s former students and col-leagues
speak about her, the words
“leader,” “innovator,” and “men-tor”
are often used. Dalton served
the SON and the state’s nursing
community for nearly 30 years as a
trailblazer in pain management
care and research before stepping
down last July to be near her family
in Atlanta. It was only fitting then
that she was honored for her contri-butions
to the profession at the
School’s 2004 Elizabeth L. Kemble
Lecture in March. Dr. Betty Ferrell, a
research scientist at City of Hope
National Medical Center and a rec-ognized
pain management expert in
her own right, was the featured
speaker.
Dr. Ferrell’s presentation, entitled
“The Science and Art of Pain
Management,” explored pain
from both a patient and caregiver
perspective while outlining priorities
for future research. According to
Ferrell, the science of pain manage-ment—
a standard of care for pain
relief, pain assessment, pharmaco-logical
advances and non-drug
treatments—must be combined
with the art of pain manage-ment—
listening and offering com-passion—
in order to better aid
patients in their suffering. And as
pain becomes a larger priority in
the health-care community, nurses
must continue to discover and
develop their own voices, acting as
agents of change, advocacy and
accountability in order to improve
the quality of pain assessment,
management and education.
Perhaps this is why, even in her
“retirement,” Dalton is acting as the
interim associate dean for academic
affairs and chair of the adult and
elder health nursing department at
Emory University’s Nell Hodgson
Woodruff School of Nursing.
Kemble Lecture honors retired pain management
expert, respected faculty member
4 CAROLINA NURSING
SONDRIES
The SON’s Professor Carol P. Fray Office of Multicultural Affairs has
a new web site and advisory board to help advance its mission of
addressing the most salient multicultural issues shaping the lives of
people in a global society. You can learn more about the OMA and its
initiatives by visiting http://nursing.unc.edu/departments/oma/.
Josephine Nelson Osborn (BSN ’71), with a gift of $50,000 to the
building campaign, has named the OMA to honor retired Professor
Carol P. Fray, the first African American faculty member at the SON.
OMA gets new web site, advisory board
Since 1994, the Center for
Research on Chronic Illness has
served as a funding and mentoring
hub for the research performed at
the School of Nursing. Dr. Joanne
Harrell, an internationally noted
researcher on childhood overweight
and cardiovascular risk factors, has
guided the CRCI since its inception.
She recently stepped down as direc-tor
this spring, however, to accept
appointment as the 2004-2005
Frances Hill Fox Scholar and to
focus more intensely on her own
critical research that is claiming
international attention. At a recent
reception to honor Harrell, Dean
Linda Cronenwett thanked her for
her valued leadership and expertise
and welcomed Dr. Diane Holditch-
Davis as the new leader of CRCI. The
Center will continue the majority of
its functions, with the exception of
grant funding, to help the School
remain one of the top nursing
research institutions in the nation.
SON lauds Dr. Joanne Harrell for
decade of leadership with CRCI
Dr. Joanne Harrell
Dr. Rumay Alexander, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Office
of Multicultural Affairs
Ms. Angeline Baker, Nurse Manager,
UNC Hospitals
Ms. Ruby Borden, Secretary, Central
Carolina Nurses Council
Ms. Elizabeth Burkett, MSN ’75
Mr. Moses Carey, Jr., Executive
Director, Piedmont Health Services
Dr. Linda Cronenwett, Dean, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing
Ms. Dianne Evans, Career Counselor,
Cedar Ridge High School
Ms. Brandi Hamlin, MSN Student,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Ms. Edith Hubbard, Associate
Director, UNC-Chapel Hill Office of
Sponsored Research
Dr. Larry Keith, Associate Director,
UNC School of Medicine Office of
Educational Development and
Director, UNC School of Medicine
Special Programs
Dr. Vicki Kowlowitz, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Center
for Instructional Technology and
Educational Support
Mr. Darryl Lester, Principal, Hindsight
Consulting
Dr. Chris McQuiston,
Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing and Director,
Center for Innovation in Health
Disparities Research
Ms. Kathy Moore, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Office
of Admissions & Student Services
Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, Director for
Diversity Education and Research,
UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Minority
Affairs
Dr. Theresa Raphael-Grimm, Clinical
Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
School of Nursing
Ms. Anh Tran, PhD Student, UNC
School of Public Health
Mr. Charles Watts, Chief Legal
Counsel, North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance
Ms. Amie Wong, BSN Student,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Mr. Harold Woodard, Associate
Dean, UNC-Chapel Hill Office for
Student Academic Counseling
OMA Advisory Board
SUMMER 2004 5
SONDRIES
The School of Nursing celebrat-ed
this year’s National Public Health
Week with a series of informative
and interactive events. Members of
the faculty, students and local com-munity
participated, and many said
they were astonished to learn of the
health disparities that exist in their
own backyard.
The week’s activities kicked off
with a seminar hosted by the Center
for Innovation in Health Disparities
Research, the result of a partnership
among the nursing schools at UNC-Chapel
Hill, Winston-Salem State
University and North Carolina
Central University. The discussion
focused on partnering with minority
communities in developing and
conducting research to reduce
health disparities. A poster presenta-tion
and reception followed.
For those unable to attend the
seminar, two students in the
School’s community health class,
Trudy Perkinson and Anne
McPherson, created a display in the
School’s main lobby. Pictured here,
the students said the purpose of the
display is to raise understanding
and publicize the challenges faced
in improving health care in North
Carolina and the nation. The
display will remain in the lobby
throughout the summer so anyone
visiting the School can learn more
about the issue.
Daily e-mails highlighting
health disparities in North Carolina
were also sent to the school’s faculty,
staff and students. Dr. Jennifer
Leeman, project director for CIHDR,
publicized in the first e-mail some
of the state’s failing grades as
recently reported in the “Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities in North
Carolina 2003 Report Card,” and
disseminated a written copy of the
report and a list of research studies
underway to deal with health dis-parities.
Dr. Sonda Oppewal, the
School’s associate dean for commu-nity
partnerships and practice and
American Public Health Association
(APHA) Public Health Nursing
Section immediate past chairperson,
helped to organize the week���s
activities.
“Each e-mail focused on a dif-ferent
aspect of racial and ethnic
health disparities by using the
resources from APHA related to dis-parities,”
said Oppewal. “The e-mail
messages summarized information
about disparities among groups
related to specific diseases, among
rural groups, women and minority
populations. The entire week’s focus
on health disparities engaged every-one
in better understanding prob-lems
of health disparities that face
an incredible number of Americans
and helped us all become better
aware of success stories related to
helping reduce disparities. The hope
was that everyone who sees this
message will take an active interest
and become involved with helping
to create a healthier nation that no
longer is marked by disparities
according to race, ethnicity, gender,
residence, literacy or socioeconomic
status.”
SON Celebrates
National Public
Health Week
The week’s focus
on health disparities
engaged everyone
in better under-standing
problems
of health disparities
that face an incred-ible
number of
Americans, and
helped us all
become better
aware of success
stories related to
helping reduce
disparities.
The nursing shortage in North
Carolina—that nebulous phrase so
often thrown about but a term that
few have a firm grasp upon—has
finally been pinned down by a
group of the state’s most respected
nursing administrators, caretakers
and policy makers. Known as the
North Carolina Institute of
Medicine’s Nursing Shortage Task
Force, this group met for over a year
to discuss the issue, studying cur-rent
statistics such as age, race,
gender, migration, compensation
and the educational system that
produces the state’s newest caretak-ers.
They applied the latest numbers
to create projections of what to
expect in the next two to three
decades. Their results were a wake-up
call, to say the least.
Dean Linda Cronenwett, who
participated on the task force along-side
Dr. Cynthia Freund, the group’s
co-chair and the SON’s dean emeri-ta,
has special insight into the find-ings.
“The task force had members
from all aspects of nursing, health
care, government and education,”
she says. “Every issue reached the
table, and data were used as the
basis for proposing
solutions for North Carolina.”
Age appears to be the biggest
threat to the profession with the
nursing workforce and the state’s
population both graying. According
to the latest figures, 14% of regis-tered
nurses and 18% of licensed
practical nurses in North Carolina
are over the age of 55. This means
that a large portion of the nursing
workforce will be retiring within the
next ten years, just as the state’s
population is on its way to growing
by nearly 2 million more new
citizens.
As for the state’s general popula-tion,
the number of North
6 CAROLINA NURSING
The Nursing Shortage
in North Carolina
“The task force had
members from all
aspects of nursing,
health care, govern-ment
and education.
Every issue reached
the table, and data
were used as the basis
for proposing solutions
for North Carolina.”
DEAN LINDA CRONENWETT
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
You knew it was coming. You’ve heard your
friends and colleagues in other states saying
they were hit hard by it. But you probably
didn’t know it was going to be this severe.
Carolinians over the age of 65 is
expected to double by 2030. Those
over the age of 85 are projected to
increase by more than 150%.
Demand for nurses with more
specialized skills, particularly in
geriatrics, will skyrocket as a result.
This is a scary thing to contemplate
when you consider that, according
to one recent study, each additional
patient added to a nurse’s workload
increases the probability of patient
mortality by 7%.
Relying on the state’s traditional
supply of nurses—young white
women—to solve this shortage sim-ply
won’t work, the task force found.
This group has many more career
options open to them than their
mothers or grandmothers did. And
while many within this population
do want to pursue nursing, the
state’s nursing schools cannot meet
the demand. A number of nursing
schools across North Carolina,
including UNC-Chapel Hill, have
had to deny admission to qualified
students because they don’t have the
budget to expand enrollments.
Other problems experienced by these
schools include lack of space, quali-fied
faculty and sites for clinical
education. Last year, more than
4,100 potential RNs and 680 poten-tial
LPNs were turned away because
of schools’ budget constraints. And
just as the state’s population of
nurses and citizens is getting older,
so are the nursing educators.
So what are the solutions to the
shortage?
Simply put, North Carolina must
face each of these issues head on.
Nursing education programs must
receive more resources to be able to
educate more nurses. Recruiting
non-traditional students such as
men and minorities—who will
more accurately reflect the state’s
citizenry—is a must. The state can-not
rely on the in-migration of
nurses from other states—which so
far has helped North Carolina fare
better than many of her neigh-bors—
to fill the upcoming swell in
vacancies. Working conditions must
improve. Salaries must rise to meet
inflation.
“Everyone with a stake in this
issue—and that includes nurses—
needs to speak up,” notes
Cronenwett. “Let your legislators
know that we need to expand nurs-ing
enrollments. Let employers
know that nurses are a resource you
value—and one that they should,
too.”
The alternative may be a
situation that none of us are ready
to face.
SUMMER 2004 7
Quick Facts
The North Carolina Institute
of Medicine Task Force was
funded by a grant from the
Duke Endowment.
Task force members met from
January 2003 to May 2004.
Dean Emerita Cynthia Freund
co-chaired the group with
Joseph D. Crocker, the senior
vice president and manager
of community affairs at
Carolinas Banking.
Other SON representatives on
the task force included Dean
Linda Cronenwett; Ernest
Grant, an adjunct faculty
member and outreach clini-cian
with the NC Jaycee Burn
Center; Michael Gates, a doc-toral
candidate; and eight
SON alumni representing sev-eral
different health-care insti-tutions.
The average age of an RN in
1983 was 38.3 years. In
2001, the average age was
43.6 years.
The average age of an LPN in
1983 was 40.5 years. In
2001, the average age was
44.9 years.
Those choosing to go into
nursing are doing so at later
ages. The average age of
nursing graduates in 2000
was 30.5 years, compared to
24.3 in 1984.
Only 12% of RNs and 26%
of LPNs in North Carolina are
a racial or ethnic minority,
compared to 28% of the
state’s general population.
Only 6% of the state’s RNs
and 5% of the LPNs are men.
The RN and LPN workforce
must grow by 50% over the
next decade to avoid a short-age.
Elizabeth Peters, a
14-month student,
is set to graduate
in August and join
the nursing work-force
at UNC
Hospitals. She's
pictured here with
Elaine Harwood,
one of her clinical
mentors and a SON
faculty member.
The looming nursing shortage
that has been the talk of national
health-care circles has finally found
its way to North Carolina, with the
N.C. Institute of Medicine reporting
a 12% shortage across the state.
This has dire implications for North
Carolina’s citizens, especially as the
number of nurses is projected to
continue decreasing as the popula-tion
increases. In February the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Bureau of
Labor Statistics reinforced this need
for more nurses with a report that
registered nurses top the list of 10
occupations with the most growth
potential through 2012. So with this
demand for more nurses, what
often is a deciding factor for those
who would be future nurses? Simply
put, it’s money. Total program fees
for the SON’s in-state 24-month
program, which covers tuition, uni-versity
and clinical fees for four
semesters and two summers of
study, is over $10,000. For out-of-state
students, the cost skyrockets to
over $39,000. Scholarships for these
potential nurses can often mean the
difference between pursuing a pro-fessional
dream and searching for a
more affordable though less satisfy-ing
alternative. Of the 530 students
at the SON this past academic year,
over 150 were on a full or partial
scholarship.
Over the next three years, the
School has a goal of creating 50
new scholarships for nursing stu-dents,
thereby helping ensure a
more stable supply of the state’s
most scarce health-care resource.
Featured here are the stories behind
a few of the SON’s scholarships and
the nursing students whose lives
have been transformed by them.
8 CAROLINA NURSING
Scholarships That Support the Future of Nursing
Opening the Doors of
Open the doors of
opportunity to talent
and virtue and they will
do themselves justice.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON, ANNE WEBB AND NORMA HAWTHORNE
Audrey Booth
(MSN ���56), the
SON’s first MSN
graduate, was
honored recently
with a named
scholarship funded
by Walter Royal
Davis. She is pic-tured
here with
scholarship recipi-ent
Sherree
Skinner (BSN ’04).
Helene Fuld Health Trust
Scholarship Fund for
Baccalaureate Nursing
Students
Helene Schwab Fuld lived dur-ing
the Golden Age of New York in
the nineteenth century, yet she was
not immune to the wretched pover-ty
that existed in the city only
blocks from the mansions of the
Vanderbilts, Astors and Gettys.
During her lifetime she worked
hard to relieve the sickness, suffer-ing
and deprivation that she
encountered. In the process, she
passed along the value of helping
those in need to her children
Leonhard and Florentine.
When Helene died in 1923, the
Fuld siblings created a foundation
in her name to continue her work.
The foundation’s purpose was
refined in 1961 to support “the
health and welfare of student nurs-es,”
and today the Trust, now
administered by HSBC Bank USA, is
the country’s largest private founda-tion
devoted exclusively to support-ing
nursing students and their edu-cation.
The Fuld’s good intentions
touched UNC this spring when the
Trust awarded over half a million
dollars to create a scholarship fund
for undergraduate nursing students.
Between eight to 10 scholarships
will be awarded annually beginning
this fall based on students’ finan-cial
need. Award amounts will
range from $2,500 to $3,500,
depending on the annual income
generated by the endowment.
“The Helene Fuld Health Trust
has made an investment in an out-standing
school of nursing whose
combination of low tuition and
high quality students will return
great value on this endowment for
generations to come,” says Dean
Linda Cronenwett. “We are proud
that our baccalaureate program,
students and faculty were deemed
worthy of this extraordinary grant.”
James M. Johnston
Scholarship Fund
Among the university’s most
prestigious need-based merit
awards, the James M. Johnston
Scholarship Fund grants the largest
number of annual scholarships to
nursing students each year. In 2003,
18 undergraduate- and masters-level
nursing students received
awards from the fund. While all
UNC students with financial need
are considered for a scholarship,
merit determines the winners. The
stipend covers all expenses for the
award winners, a fact that helps
students like Brandi Hamlin con-centrate
on studies instead of worry-ing
about bills.
Registered nurses taking contin-uing
education classes sponsored by
the SON are also eligible for
Johnston Scholarships on a first-come,
first-served basis. In 2003,
the SON’s continuing education
department awarded over 1300
scholarships.
A UNC student himself, Johnston
appreciated the value of a Carolina
education. With the knowledge and
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Opportunity
Brandi Hamlin
BSN ’01, MSN ’04
Johnston Scholarship recipient 1997-2001 & 2003-2004
“The Johnston Scholars Program has truly made a
difference in helping me achieve my goals in higher
education. I first received a Johnston scholarship as a
rising freshman prior to starting school as an under-graduate
at Carolina. As an out-of-state student, the
program was the only way that I was able to afford
to come to Carolina. This scholarship took the place
of thousands of dollars of student loans that I observe
many of my out-of-state friends struggling to pay
even now three years after graduation. I was able
to return to graduate school full-time only one year
after graduation and reduce my work hours without
worrying about paying back college tuition because
of my undergraduate Johnston scholarship. When I
received a scholarship for the 2003-2004 school year, I
was completely overjoyed. As a second-time Johnston
scholarship award winner, I feel truly blessed to have
been chosen to participate in this wonderful program
again.
“It is essential that scholarships be available for gradu-ate
nursing students because many of these students
experience changes in their income as they reduce
their work hours to attend school. Many graduate
students also still have student loans from their under-graduate
degrees. In addition, many graduate nursing
students have families that they must continue to
support while attending school. Thus, scholarships
really make a difference in supporting graduate
nursing students financially and allowing them to
focus on obtaining their graduate education instead
of financing their graduate education.
“If someone is considering establishing a scholarship
for students, I would tell them to ‘Go for it!’ In a time
of a critical nursing shortage, the nursing profession is
in dire need of more monetary support for future
nurses, future advanced practice nurses and future
nurse leaders.”
Jen Hammontree
BSN ’04
Cora Pitts Barbee Scholarship recipient 2003-2004
“This is the first scholarship
I’ve won and it has relieved
some of my financial worry
while allowing me more time
to focus on my studies. At a
recent dinner I was fortunate
enough to meet several
alumni who have given back
to the School by funding
scholarships, and it was a
wonderful opportunity for
me and a few of my fellow
scholarship recipients to say ‘thank you.’ These
scholarships are important because tuition expenses
continue to rise. I would encourage everyone who
can to establish a scholarship. It is tax deductible,
and the recipient will save hundreds of dollars in
interest by avoiding student loans.”
skills he gained during his time in
Chapel Hill, Johnston went on to
found an investment banking firm
in Washington, DC, and buy the
Washington Senators basketball
team in the 1960s. Through this
scholarship fund, his love of learn-ing
and UNC lives on.
“Strong nursing education pre-pares
competent and caring nurses
and develops the foundation upon
which to build our future clinicians,
researchers, educators, administra-tors
and policy makers in health
care, but it is costly,” notes Dr.
Beverly Foster, clinical associate
professor and director of undergrad-uate
nursing programs.
“Scholarships allow us to provide
opportunities for qualified appli-cants,
who might otherwise be
excluded based on cost, to take this
first professional step.”
Ann P. Trowbridge
Scholarship Fund
A gracious spirit—this is how
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
describes her mother. Ann Pierce
Trowbridge wanted to be a nurse so
she could share that spirit with oth-ers,
but life circumstances and obli-gations
prevented her. She was espe-cially
pleased, then, when her
daughter announced that she want-ed
to pursue nursing. Martin
entered the SON in the 1960s when,
she says, scholarships weren’t as
readily available.
“When I was a student nurse,
very few of my peers worked except
during the summer months,” she
says. “Life was simple and much
more affordable. Most parents saved
for years to provide for their chil-dren’s
college tuition and board.
Today times are different. A scholar-ship
offers the student an opportu-nity
to focus not only on academics,
but to experience the full arena of
campus life without the added
financial burden. During my senior
year I was fortunate to receive a
Navy Nurse Corps Scholarship, so I
am well aware of the impact such a
gift can make.”
When her mother passed away
from brain cancer in 1981, Martin
decided to begin a scholarship fund
to honor her memory. She made the
personal goal of contributing to the
fund annually on her mother’s
birthday. The fund is also a way for
her to honor her Carolina nursing
roots and the future of Carolina
nursing. This year, she converted
the expendable scholarship into a
permanently endowed fund that will
benefit students in perpetuity.
“To anyone considering estab-lishing
a nursing scholarship, I
would say that assisting a student to
become a nurse is a small invest-ment
in the future of our nation’s
health care,” she says. “It is a gift
which keeps on giving because one
nurse reaches out to touch many
lives.”
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The SON recently hosted a dinner to recognize several scholarship donors
and recipients. Pictured here are Jen Hammontree and Jo-Anne and Ted
Martin.
Frances Ader Read
Scholarship Fund
Henry and Frances Read (BSN
’58) are a couple with true philan-thropic
spirit. They give of their
time and talent in many ways, so it
was not surprising when Henry
chose to surprise his wife with a
named scholarship in her honor. As
Henry says, “I believe that we are
only here for a short time, and that
we must give back to those things
that are meaningful to us.”
Henry was gifted with a named
scholarship at St. Mary’s College
where he worked for many years.
He found that a contribution to a
student’s education was truly
rewarding and wanted his wife to
experience the same feeling.
“I’ve never seen anyone who loved
nursing as much as Frances does,
and I love her,” he explains. Henry
surprised Frances with the scholar-ship
in 1997, saying he felt like
she had given so much to nursing
that he wanted to leave a tangible
recognition of her life in the area
that meant the most to her.
In many ways nursing was in
Frances’ blood. Her grandfather and
father were physicians, and Frances
was fascinated with patient care.
She spent as much time as she was
allowed in her father’s office watch-ing
the nurses in action. When the
time came for college, she knew
that nursing was her goal. She
entered Carolina in 1954, where she
met Henry. Much of her nursing
career was in the area of public
health, but she also served many
years as a nursing instructor.
Frances is retired now, but continues
to work on a part-time basis. This
lifelong dedication to nursing and
education lives on each year in
Frances’ work with patients. It also
lives on through future nurses,
studying at Carolina with the assis-tance
of the Frances Ader Read
Scholarship.
Eunice Morde Doty
Scholarship Fund
This year undergraduate nurs-ing
students will immediately bene-fit
from the gift that Carol Morde
Ross (AB ��64) recently made to
show her deep affection and respect
for her mother, Eunice Morde Doty.
Ross wanted to create a lasting
tribute and to honor her mother’s
life with a scholarship that would
enable nursing students to attend a
baccalaureate degree program in
the way her mother had wished to,
but could not, in spite of having
graduated as valedictorian of her
high school class in 1936. Financial
support for college was not an
option for Doty during the Great
Depression, yet through sheer deter-mination
she graduated from the
diploma nursing program at
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston in 1939.
Through this scholarship,
Ross says she has found a way to tell
her mother’s story—how strongly
committed her mother was to the
well-being of her family and to the
principles of her profession—and
to keep it alive into the future.
She also tells us how Doty was a
role-model during her 40-plus year
nursing career and shares Doty’s
values and ideals. Doty provided the
foundation for learning and inquiry
that shaped Ross’ life to prepare
her to become a psychiatric clinical
nurse specialist. Now Carolina nurs-ing
student scholarship recipients
will be able to tell others how the
Eunice Morde Doty scholarship
enabled them to attain their
dreams.
In 1994, Doty moved to the
Glenaire Continuing Care
Retirement Community in Cary, NC.
Today, she resides in the assisted
living unit, provided with care
and comfort by devoted and com-passionate
nurses like her. Ross
indicated that it was a tremendous
privilege to be able to present this
scholarship to her mother during
her mother’s lifetime. A reception,
hosted by Ross and the SON, was
held at Glenaire on January 10,
2004.
“The scholarship that I have
established in my mother’s name is
to express my deep love for her and
to say thanks for being my mom,”
says Ross. “It is also intended to
acknowledge the wonderful contri-bution
she has made to nursing and
to tell the world that she was an
outstanding nurse who truly cared
about others.”
To learn more about establishing
a SON scholarship or contributing
to an existing fund, visit
http://nursing.unc.edu/develop-ment/
campaign.html or call
Advancement Director Norma
Hawthorne at (919) 966-4619.
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PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
Carol Ross with her
mother, Eunice
Morde Doty, at a
reception honoring
Ms. Doty and the
scholarship recently
established in her
name.
CN: You’ve headed up the
School’s efforts to get this new
building addition from pen and
paper to bricks and mortar. How
did you come by that job?
MM: I just happened to be in the
right place at the right time. Dean
Cronenwett asked if I might consid-er
it. At first I said “No, I don’t think
so,” but then after I thought about
it, I realized it was a wonderful
opportunity...so I quickly went back
and said, “Sure, I would love to do
it!” I think the dean appreciated
that I am a detail-oriented person,
and the creation of this addition is
full of details.
CN: When did the School first
start tossing around the idea of
building an addition?
MM: Dean Cindy Freund started
the process of looking at a new
building addition back in the early
1990s. Significant growth in the
School’s research programs, the
opening of the PhD program,
expanded use of clinical lab facili-ties
as well as other School initia-tives
made it evident that a new
addition was required.
CN: Why is this new addition so
important? How will it benefit
the students, faculty and alumni?
MM: Much of the new addition
is for growth that has already
occurred. We were using the current
Carrington Hall well beyond full
capacity before we started construc-tion.
The new addition will provide
more conference rooms for faculty
and student use, more funded proj-ect
space so grant teams can have
adequate work space, more clinical
skills lab facilities to accommodate
increased use at the BSN and MSN
levels, faculty offices that allow for
privacy and concentration, and
dedicated archiving areas so we
don’t have to use the attic or the
basement where records aren’t as
secure as we’d like them to be. The
addition will give us breathing
room to continue the work of the
School and will accommodate
growth of our educational, research
and clinical initiatives.
CN: What have been the biggest
challenges in getting the addition
built?
MM: At different times during this
process, we've sought faculty, staff,
student and alumni input in shap-ing
the priorities for the space and
how it should be designed. By far
the biggest challenge for me has
been trying to show these parties
that their suggestions were really
heard and that we tried to incorpo-rate
them into the actual building
when design and budget would
allow. Planning the space has been
a balancing act between what was
wanted, what was needed, and what
we could afford. Also, we knew that
the selected building site would be
challenging because of the number
of utilities that run through it, but
the alternative would not have
provided enough space to meet our
current needs, not to mention that
it would have squeezed a building
between Carrington Hall and
Columbia Street. To top that off, the
creation of the temporary utilities
took longer than expected, and
then we encountered more rock
than expected....lots of big sturdy
boulders. The contractor had to
reroute numerous utilities and do
a lot more digging under Medical
Drive and in the exact area where
they needed to erect the tower crane.
Without the tower crane, there
wasn’t a lot of progress on the
actual building.
CN: And what would you say
have been the biggest joys in
creating this new space?
MM: Despite all the problems,
this has just been fun. I’ve really
enjoyed sharing our plans with
alumni, faculty, staff and students
and inviting them to come see the
new building. Now that we have
some walls and columns, people
in the building are beginning to
realize that it’s going to actually
happen and they have started to get
a little excited. I also know that this
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From Pen and Paper
to Bricks and Mortar:
A Chat with Maggie Miller about the New Building Addition
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
When Maggie Miller was a little girl, she would
watch with interest as her dad, a builder in Tennessee,
would spread his blueprints over the dining room table.
His visions of big new buildings fascinated her. Little did
she know that one day she would be involved in
creating a big new building herself.
Miller, now an accomplished nurse, UNC alum
(MSN ’77, PhD ’90) and the SON’s assistant dean for
student and faculty services, has been a driving force
behind the creation of the School’s new building
addition. From helping choose the location to selecting
chairs for the new auditorium, Miller has been involved
every step of the way. The following is a recent interview
with Miller on the status of the addition, her labor of
love over the past four years, and what the new space
will mean to future Carolina nurses.
building will serve the School for
many years to come, and it’s a great
deal of satisfaction to know that I
have had a small role in that.
CN: What are some of the
features you are most proud of
in this new addition?
MM: We have created some infor-mal
spaces so folks can gather, talk
and share experiences. The other
feature that I'm proud of is that the
building is “environmentally friend-ly.”
The green roof will help handle
storm water, and even the construc-tion
debris is being recycled or
disposed of in an environmentally-friendly
manner.
CN: How will the building
advance nursing education,
practice and research?
MM: The new space means
we can accommodate increased
enrollments once funding is
available for faculty positions. Of
course our research projects benefit
the state of North Carolina and the
nation. Adequate space should
encourage more research and
practice initiatives.
CN: What is the projected move-in
date for students and faculty?
MM: The current official date for
the building to be turned over to us
is November 5, 2004, and hopefully
we can move in before spring
semester. The contractor admits that
this date represents a very optimistic
timeline and it may not be possible.
They plan on working extended
hours and have been trying to
coordinate the subcontractors so
that delays are minimal, but
frankly, I think it'll take a miracle
for us to make that date.
CN: So when will alums and
friends be able to tour the
building for the first time?
MM: Alumni Day on October 30,
2004, is just before the scheduled
completion, but we may be able to
open a floor or two for tours. The
official ribbon cutting will be in the
spring of 2005, and all alumni and
friends will be invited back to the
SON for the celebration.
.
CN: How important is the
support of alums, friends,
students, faculty and staff in
getting this addition built?
MM: We were fortunate that this
building was included in the
Education Bond of 2000, and the
University has certainly been sup-portive
of this endeavor. However,
the School needed to raise $4 mil-lion
in private funds to make this
building a reality, and last time I
checked we had over $1 million left
to reach our goal...so our supporters
have and still can play a tremen-dously
important role by making a
pledge to the building. A contribu-tion
to the building is a great way to
give back to the School, or to give a
gift to honor someone else. I look at
it as a way to be part of the School
for many years to come.
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PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
14 CAROLINA NURSING
November 2002
Construction began
immediately after
Alumni Day, with the
builder moving equip-ment
into the con-struction
area.
December 2002
The land was cleared
and work on moving
underground utility
lines for the SON, the
medical school and
UNC Hospitals began.
These utilities included
steam, chilled water,
phone and electricity.
April 2003
Many surprises were
found while the utilities
were being moved—
unknown pipelines, hid-den
phone lines, and
even an underground
vault that was not
marked on anyone’s
maps. The temporary
utility lines can be seen
to the right of the photo.
August 2003
Huge boulders were
found that further
delayed construction.
The builder had to
arrange for them to be
hauled away, several of
them occupying an
entire truck bed alone.
Building Our Future: A Construction Progress Report
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
Carrington Hall
Built in 1969
Sq Ft = 71,440
New Addition
To be finished: 2004
Sq Ft = 69,350
1969
160 students
28 courses
$22,000 research
2004
530 students
Over 100 courses
$10.1+ mil research
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
January 2004
Fortunately, once these
problems were dealt
with, the ground was
cleared, graded and
made ready for true
construction on the
building to begin.
February 2004
The highly anticipated
crane tower is pictured
here. Construction of
the building was
dependent upon it, but
it could not be secured
in its concrete founda-tion
until work on the
ground was completed.
March 2004
With everything now in
place, the pace of con-struction
picked up
dramatically. Columns
and flooring appeared
quickly. Pictured here
is the sub-basement of
the addition.
April 2004
This photo, like the
one from August 2003,
was captured with a
“fish-eye” camera lens
to give a more compre-hensive
view of the
work. Clearly defined
walls can be seen at
this point.
May 2004
Construction has pro-gressed
to what will
become the ground
floor of the addition by
this point. Floors and
walls are now clearly
distinguishable. We’ve
got a real building in
front of us!
Anne Webb, associate director
of alumni affairs, has spoken with
many of the SON’s alums about
their experiences in nursing school
over the years, including several
members of the Class of 1970 who
were the first to attend class in the
newly constructed Carrington Hall.
Here are a few of the fun things
she’s learned from some of you.
Just think what the Class of 2005
will be saying in 35 years!
The late 1960s was a time of
great change and growth at the
School of Nursing and the
University as a whole. Culminating
in the dedication of Carrington
Hall in 1969, the students of the
time were in constant transforma-tion.
When they entered Carolina
as freshmen, the BSN Class of
1970 became the first group to
complete the program of two years
of general college work before get-ting
into their nursing curriculum.
They were also the last class to be
admitted to the nursing school as
freshmen. This curriculum change
was put in place to bring the pro-gram
more in line with other bac-calaureate-
level degrees at the
University. Research was gaining in
prominence during this time as well.
Culturally, life was changing
on campus as more females were
admitted to Carolina and the
Association of Women Students
was started. The Class began with
the same strict guidelines as the
classes before them, including
mandatory closed study and watch-ful
monitoring of activities. By the
time they graduated, things had
changed significantly. The Class of
1970 spent its final semester in
Carrington Hall. Gwen Waddell
Schultz, who got her BSN that year,
said the students thought of it as a
“mansion,” but were not thrilled by
having to now study at the Health
Sciences Library since the old build-ing
had its own library. Schultz
recalls a very cold, windy day when
Mrs. Carrington dedicated the
building that bore her name—a
dream come true.
Nursing finally had its own
facility and took its place among
the other UNC health affairs
schools.
And A Look at the Past….
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
BY NORMA HAWTHORNE
Today Dr. Anne Belcher is
associate dean for academic affairs
at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing. When she
graduated from Chapel Hill in 1967,
nursing students were accepted as
freshmen, wore uniforms of
starched cotton dresses and lived
together in the nursing dorm. What
hasn’t changed is the rigor of the
program and the preparation to
take on just about any nursing
challenge new graduates face.
“There were so many opportuni-ties
to choose from and so many
different roles that nurses could
assume,” Belcher says. “I felt I was
prepared to take on just about any-thing.”
And she did. Right after
graduation Belcher went to work at
UNC Hospitals, and it wasn’t long
before she became night nurse-in-charge.
“The faculty taught me
great skills and helped me fully
understand the value, scope and
power of a good nurse,” she says.
“I was ready for anything.”
The program also introduced
her and her classmates, still a tight-knit
group, to national leaders in
their field who came to Chapel Hill
to speak. As a result, they could
learn perspectives of other nursing
disciplines. This, combined with the
value of a liberal arts education,
helped prepare her for her own pro-fessional
leadership role in academ-ic
nursing. She recalls questioning
why she needed to take a political
science course as a nursing student,
but by the time the course was over,
she realized that politics had a lot to
do with health-care policies.
After earning the MSN at the
University of Washington, Belcher
went on to Florida State University
in Tallahassee to teach. She was
there for nine years and earned the
PhD in higher education. Every-where
she studied and taught, the
faculty sensed her creative energy
and solid grounding. “I attribute
that to my strong BSN program,”
Belcher says.
She spent the next several years
teaching master’s and doctoral stu-dents
at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham, then transferred to
UAB Hospital to organize a staff
development program for nurses
that included teaching critical
thinking skills needed to set priori-ties
and identify multiple needs. She
was then sought out to start a mas-ter’s
degree track in oncology nurs-ing
at Memorial Sloan Kettering in
New York City, where she later
became associate dean for academic
affairs.
“New York was great, but it was
far from home, and when the
University of Maryland wanted to
start a master’s focus in oncology
nursing, I jumped at it,” she says.
Belcher was there for 12 years,
becoming department chair and
continuing to teach and work with
students—her first love—never
really seeing herself exclusively as
an administrator. Later, after a time
commuting to Philadelphia to
Thomas Jefferson University, she
returned to Baltimore and her cur-rent
position.
Students say Belcher has a great
sense of humor and makes learning
fun. “That’s the best feedback I can
get,” she says. “I know that when I
have this kind of impact on stu-dents,
the patients they care for will
also directly benefit from my work.
“When people ask me the most
important issue facing nursing, it is
easy to respond that it’s the nursing
shortage. Yet, for me, it is the bigger,
more complex issue about how peo-ple
can stay healthy. As a society, we
are each raised with differing values
about health and lifestyle, and as
nurses we must be sensitive to this.
When I teach about chronic illness,
aging and diversity issues, I want
students to be aware that not every-one
approaches a health issue the
same way.
“My Chapel Hill memories are
wonderful, and I’m very proud of
being a UNC alumna,” she contin-ues.
“My dad was there when I
received the School’s Alumna of the
Year Award. It was great. I miss both
my parents and wanted to do some-thing
to honor their memory and
what they did for me by sending me
to Carolina. That’s why I’ve named
a room in their honor in the new
building.”
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NOTEWORTHY NURSES
Dr. Anne Belcher, BSN ’67
Lt. Col. Mona Bingham, PhD ’02
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
It’s funny the paths that life takes
you. Mona Bingham never pictured
herself as a nurse, let alone a nurse
in the US Army. Nor did she in her
wildest dreams ever think she would
end up in a combat zone caring for
soldiers, civilians and enemy prison-ers
of war. But that’s exactly where
her path took her last year.
Bingham, a 2002 graduate of the
SON’s doctoral program, began her
career in psychology. She performed
laboratory research and worked with
adolescents at a private inpatient
facility, but found that she was
drawn to the work performed by the
psychiatric nurses on duty there. She
decided at that time to get her nurs-ing
degree, and the US Army
Reserves was a good way to help pay
for it. Once she graduated from
Texas Woman’s University, she had
several job offers in the state, but
after her time away from home in
California discovered that she want-ed
to return west. The Army beck-oned
with full-time active duty, and
Bingham accepted, especially when
she learned that she could continue
her nursing education with full
scholarships. She earned her MSN
PHOTO COURTESY OF MONA BINGHAM, PHD ’02 PHOTO COURTESY OF ANNE BELCHER, BSN ’67
“When people ask me
the most important
issue facing nursing,
it is easy to respond
that it’s the nursing
shortage. Yet, for me,
it is the bigger, more
complex issue about
how people can stay
healthy. As a society,
we are each raised
with differing values
about health and
lifestyle, and as nurs-es
we must be sensi-tive
to this.”
ANNE BELCHER
from the University of Nevada at
Reno and decided to head east for
her PhD. It was the groundbreaking
research and mentoring spirit of
Professor Joanne Harrell that attract-ed
her to UNC.
“I was so excited at the wealth of
information and intellectual stimu-lation
all over the campus,” she
says. “But most important, for some
reason, it just felt like home to me. I
loved the chance to work with Dr.
Harrell and her research team, and I
gained a wonderful education—very
well rounded—including time to
watch sports and learn from multi-disciplinary
presentations.”
It was just when she was ready to
graduate from Carolina and begin
her research career as an Army
nurse that she was called to serve in
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
Bingham was deployed with the
47th Combat Support Hospital
(CSH) to Camp Wolf in Kuwait. At
296 beds and the largest combat
hospital established during OIF, the
47th CSH was designated as the
evacuation point during the entirety
of the operation. She served in many
roles during her time there, includ-ing
infection control officer, preven-tive
medical officer and ultimately
as the assistant chief nurse. It was
during her time serving as the head
nurse for the hospital’s ward desig-nated
for enemy prisoners of war
and displaced civilians that she
encountered her most moving expe-riences.
“Working as head nurse with
brand new BSN nurses was an
honor,” explains Bingham. “I was
able to mentor, guide and experience
with them enormous challenges and
personal growth. I believe we learned
and felt the essence of nursing—
that pain and suffering is universal,
and that we have accepted a job and
oath to relieve that pain and pro-mote
healing. War has many faces,
and we were privileged to see a dif-ferent
side.”
Bingham’s experiences were
eventually chronicled in the US
Army Surgeon General’s report,
“Providing Quality Medical Care in
the Crucible of Battle.”
Now back in the US, Bingham
is pursuing her research career
that was put on hold by war. She
currently serves as the chief of the
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Outcomes Program at Madigan
Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA.
And, true to the unexpected paths
that life takes, she is using her war
experience in her research, serving
as an associate investigator of three
grants investigating nursing and sol-dier
health-care issues and leading
her own study to learn more about
military personnel’s perceptions of
deployment.
She credits her nursing career
and education, particularly that
from UNC, with making her the
leader she is today.
“I have seen that humanity has
enormous depths, and nursing is a
special place to observe that,” says
Bingham. “But if you asked me
what was the most important thing I
gained from UNC, I would tell you
the personal relationships of the
many faculty who worked with me
and shared their thoughts and expe-riences.
Also, the closeness of my fel-low
students—discussions in and
out of class, the Thursday night
happy hours, the evenings on my
patio, the laughter and tears, and
the incredible memories. I have been
truly blessed throughout my life with
great inspirational people who have
helped me in life. I have had the
best of mentors, incredible personal
and work experiences, and the clos-est
and best of friendships. What is
life but these things?”
SUMMER 2004 17
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MONA BINGHAM, PHD ’02
“I have seen that
humanity has enor-mous
depths, and
nursing is a special
place to observe that.
But if you asked me
what was the most
important thing I
gained from UNC,
I would tell you the
personal relationships
of the many faculty
who worked with
me and shared
their thoughts and
experiences.”
MONA BINGHAM
BY ANNE WEBB
This year alumni were honored
guests for a day of continuing edu-cation
and friendship at their alma
mater in celebration of a new and
exciting approach to Nurses
Appreciation Week.
Alumni Nurses Appreciation
Day took place on May 6 and was
sponsored by the SON Alumni
Association with funding from the
Johnson & Johnson Campaign for
Nursing’s Future.
More than 50 participants gath-ered
at the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center for breakfast with Dean
Linda Cronenwett. After spending
time together greeting old friends
and making new ones, attendees
chose to attend mini-sessions on
legal issues, genetics, finding med-ical
information on the Internet
and advancing the nursing career
based on his or her own experience
and interest. Many commented on
how exciting it was to have so many
generations of Carolina nurses shar-ing
and learning together again.
Graduates from each decade in the
school’s history were present, and
this made for a special Carolina
nursing environment, they said.
The day was a great event for the
student volunteers who helped man-age
the event as well. Heather Fund,
a senior in the 24-month BSN pro-gram,
said, “Being around alumni
and getting to know some of them
made me proud of my profession.
They were all so kind, and they had
great stories!”
After the morning educational
sessions, the group took a campus
walk to Carrington Hall where they
got a first-hand view of the con-struction
on the new building addi-tion.
Dr. Maggie Miller (MSN ’77),
assistant dean, led a lively discus-sion
with highlights about current
academic programs, research,
admissions statistics details about
the ongoing construction of the new
building addition. Dr. Rumay
Alexander, director of the Office of
Multicultural Affairs, also addressed
the group and discussed her efforts
to create the School’s diversity plan.
She stressed that the plan is inclu-sive
of alumni and that she would
be happy to be a resource for SON
alums.
Door prizes and lunch followed,
and participants were free to spend
time in Carrington or on campus.
Many alumni were surprised at the
changes going on within the School
and were happy that the tradition of
nursing excellence has continued at
Carolina.
Attendee Mary Ann Tormey (BSN
’88) said, “An alumni event like this
is a great way to provide CE credits,
a forum for networking among
nursing professionals with common
educational backgrounds, a captive
audience for fundraising for the
school, and a way for current
students to see what paths former
UNC grads have taken.”
18 CAROLINA NURSING
Nurses Appreciation Day
A Tribute to Our Alums with Support
from Johnson & Johnson
Alumnae Valerie Balestrieri (BSN ’90) and Rosemary Resler (BSN ’86)
enjoy lunch together.
Back to school! These
alumni enjoy a session
on the state of the
School with Assistant
Dean Maggie Miller.
EKG Analysis
Board members used their skills
to teach a section in the 14-month
BSN option curriculum. Association
President Tonya Rutherford
Hemming (BSN ’93, MSN ’01) pre-sented
a lecture on dysrhythmias
and EKG analysis to students. The
class then broke out into learning
lab groups where they were given
hands-on instruction and guidance.
These groups were led by board
members Derek Chrisco (BSN ’91),
Mary Holtschneider (BSN ’95) and
Courtney Rawls (BSN ’01). The
association also provided an EKG
resource booklet and calipers to
each student.
Clinical Associate Professor
Carol Durham, who coordinated the
program, noted how the program
was helpful beyond the normal
teaching experience. “The course
showed the students that alumni
had a vested interest in their suc-cess,”
she says. “Students were able
to ask questions of instructors about
the information content and about
their individual nursing experiences
and positions.”
The half-day session was mean-ingful
to the instructors as well.
Rutherford Hemming says of the
experience, “Teaching often allows
you to see the learning that takes
place in students—sometimes in
their faces, right in front of you!
When you see this development and
know you have played a small role
in their nursing career, it is the
greatest feeling in the world.”
Taking Some of the
Stress Out of the NCLEX
Remember the anxiety of taking
those dreaded “nursing boards”?
The BSN Class of 2004 had only a
short time to celebrate graduation
before they had to move on to
preparing for the NCLEX. To ease
some of pressure, the Alumni
Association brought back a group of
2003 graduates to share some tips
with the seniors.
This spring, Allison Berry, Laura
Correll and Jona Martino led a
panel discussion on preparing for
the NCLEX. The panel presented
their individual methods of study
and test taking tips.
A key focus area was reducing
stress. “You’re going to get stressed
out,” Correll told the group. “Just
go ahead and prepare for that feel-ing.
If you take the practice tests,
you’ll feel more comfortable.
Remember you���re graduating from
Carolina—you know your stuff!”
The panel was very informal and
students also took the opportunity to
ask the alumni for advice on transi-tioning
from nursing school to the
work world.
The idea for the panel came out
of the Alumni Association Board’s
annual meeting. Board member Dr.
Bonnie Angel (BSN ’79) suggested
that the group find a way to assist
students with the NCLEX to supple-ment
the information that the
School already provides. Students
are given the opportunity to attend
a pharmacology review and a week-long
test review session. These were
both highly recommended by the
panelists.
In 2003 the SON prepared 160
BSN students for the NCLEX, the
largest number in the state that
year. UNC was one of only two
schools in North Carolina to prepare
over 100 BSN students (East
Carolina University had 134 under-graduate
students write the exam
for the first time).
UNC’s passage rate for registered
nurses was among the highest in
the state, with 93% passing the
NCLEX on the first try, three percent
higher than the state’s average and
six percent higher than the nation-al.
You can check out the North
Carolina Board of Nursing’s web site
at http://www.ncbon.com/LicStat-
PassRates.asp to see more facts and
figures on how UNC’s nursing pro-gram
compared to others around
the state.
SUMMER 2004 19
ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Association Moves Into
New Teaching Role
The SON Alumni Association is committed to improving the student nursing
experience, which in the past has been accomplished through programs and
events. This year the Association’s Board of Directors took their commitment
a step further by creating an initiative to help educate in the classroom.
Courtney Rawls (BSN
’01), pictured at the
end of the table, leads
a lab on EKG analysis
for current students.
The SON Alumni Association is
proud to award four scholarships
each year to deserving students. The
2004 recipients received their
awards at a dinner in their honor at
Top of the Hill on Franklin Street.
Pictured here are SON Alumni
Association Board Secretary Meg
Gambrell (BSN ’01); scholarship
recipients Erin Seitz, a senior in the
24-month program, and Brooke
Bayse and Lori Dettmer, juniors in
the 24-month program; Not pic-tured
is recipient Katy McElroy, a
student in the 14-month program.
20 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NEWS
2004 Scholarship Recipients Announced
Triad-area alumni were given
the opportunity to participate in a
special continuing education pro-gram
in Winston Salem this spring.
Clinical Instructor Beth Lamanna
presented a lively presentation
called, “Epidemiology Update: Risk-
Communication-Real Threats?
What Can Public Health Do?” The
session was followed by an update of
SON news and activities by Dr.
Maggie Miller, assistant dean.
In addition to discounted con-tinuing
education and professional
information, the event was valuable
for getting to know fellow alumni in
the area. As Pat Hayes (BSN ’67)
said, “Best of all was the networking
opportunity and intergenerational
dialogue among ‘veteran’ graduates
of the 1960’s through to the recent
2003 graduates. I think all enjoyed
listening to the discussion of student
days at UNC and current nursing
workplace situations. The pride of
being a Carolina grad was clear
regardless of the generation!”
Alumni
Association
Takes
Continuing
Education
to the Triad
Alums from all different class years and nursing specialties came together for a
continuing education event in Winston-Salem recently.
SUMMER 2004 21
ALUMNI NEWS
Reunion Planning 101
SON classes have enjoyed lots of memorable reunions through the years. Many groups come together around
Alumni Day, and others have their own traditions. For example, the BSN Class of ’61 has a tradition of continuous
rotating reunions where the group meets in a different spot for each gathering; they have been to classmates’
homes in many different states through the years. The BSN Classes of ’55, ’56 and ’61 always manage to stay close
and get together frequently in different formal and informal settings.
Regardless of the particular style of the group, Carolina nurses have great reunions! Sometimes the task of
putting one together seems daunting, so below are a few tips from some of the experts who have put on recent
successful reunions. Ginger Weeks, Barbara Warren and Joanne Welborne, members of the BSN Class of ’63
reunion planning committee, shared their strategies and tips to help others plan a terrific reunion. All find that
the fun outweighs the work and there are actually lots of resources at your disposal.
Tip➊
Form a planning group. It helps to
have more than one person at the
helm to ensure that the workload is
shared. Additionally, more represen-tation
from different social groups
in the planning stages increases
attendance.
Tip➋
Use the SON Alumni Office as a
resource. They will provide contact
information to the planning group
and do any mailings needed for the
reunion. Additionally, the SON
Alumni Association provides
reunion grants of up to $100 to help
with expenses for reunions that are
planned in conjunction with
Alumni Weekend.
Tip➌
Personal contact is important.
Mailings get the word out initially,
but contacting classmates personal-ly
helps remind folks about the
event. The Class of ’63 planning
group divided up the roster and
called classmates to encourage
attendance.
Tip➍
Try to get a home base. Finding a
class member who lives in the area
to help with logistical planning is
ideal.
Tip➎
Plan events that suit the tastes of the
Class. In the case of the Class of ’63,
classmate Faye McNaull hosted the
group at her home for the main
reunion dinner. This allowed class
members to relax and catch up with
each other without having a set
ending time for the evening. Dean
Linda Cronenwett enjoyed stopping
by and taking part in the fun at
their reunion. Other weekend events
included lunch at the Rathskellar
and a chance for class members to
either go shopping at Southpoint
Mall or attend the UNC football
game.
Tip➏
Celebrate your history. For example,
’63 Classmate Peggy Wade had
copies made of photos from previ-ous
reunions for attendees. It is
always fun to look back and see
how things have changed, or stayed
the same! Another personal touch at
the ’63 reunion included handmade
centerpieces on each table, which
featured photos of the students in
their nursing school days.
Tip➐
Stay in touch. Encourage classmates
to send in their updated contact
information to the School. The
Alumni Affairs office will provide a
booklet of contact information for
all attendees at the reunion.
Sending in current information will
keep this listing accurate
Tip➑
Follow up and plan for the future.
The Class of ’63 sent out a recap of
the weekend, photos and updated
contact information for classmates.
They also discussed ideas for the
next reunion.
A class reunion is a wonderful
time to enjoy special memories
and celebrate the excitement of
joining together with classmates
again. If you would like to put
these tips into action and serve as
a reunion planner for your own
class, please contact Anne Webb at
Anne_Webb@unc.edu or (919)
866-4619. Alumni Weekend is
coming up on October 29-30.
Building … for the health of North Carolina people
To our Alumni and Friends,
The concrete is being poured and the magenta-wrapped electrical cable
is laid on each level of our new building. Each day brings the image
of students, faculty and staff who will make this space home closer to
reality. We watch as each floor takes shape…and hope.
Today, we are $1.8 million short of our goal. As we plan to equip and
furnish this building, this shortfall will limit our ability to continue to
offer the best nursing education possible without your help. We are
weighing priorities and making tough decisions about the level of technology that will be installed in
classrooms, laboratories and offices. Which skills laboratories will receive enhanced or basic equipment?
Which conference rooms will be outfitted with new or worn furniture? Which rooms will remain vacant
until there is funding to install what is needed to occupy them?
■ A clinical education skills laboratory will give student nurses a simulated patient care experience
that is as close to reality as is possible, better preparing them for the demands they will face
immediately upon graduation. Your gift will help us replace outdated, worn equipment and
hospital beds.
■ A distance learning lab will offer UNC access to RNs who want to earn the BSN. Your gift will open
the best educational experience to all who have the desire and talent.
■ An undergraduate computer laboratory will offer the complex technology that will continue to
make Carolina nursing students among the most valued in all health care settings. Your gift will
help us buy the learning tools that students depend on to become outstanding nurses.
Will you consider what you can do now? Will you make a 5-year pledge to name a laboratory, meeting
room or faculty office? Will you add your name to the brick walkway? Will you think about what a
“significant” gift means to you and make a gift at that level?
It is our future nurses and the people they will be caring for who will be grateful to you.
You have our thanks,
Norma Hawthorne
Director of Advancement
22 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
“The SON has been my
professional home since
1986. And like any
home should be, it has
been for me a place to
thrive: where bonds are
forged, ideas are nur-tured,
imagination
takes flight, and aca-demic
dreams come
true. I am pleased to
have the opportunity,
through the Carolina
First campaign, to
help Carolina become
home to others.”
DR. MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI
Boshamer Distinguished
Professor of Nursing
“It has been said, ‘Give
and you shall receive.’
The UNC School of
Nursing provided the
framework and foun-dation
for me to
become a professional
caregiver, empowering
me to achieve my
career goals as a U.S.
Navy nurse, as well as
to develop the confi-dence
to meet many
other life challenges.
Through supporting the
School of Nursisng, the
joy of seeing the enthu-siastic
young men and
women pursue their
nursing careers is the
best of all ‘thank yous.’
It is exhilarating to
have the opportunity to
encourage and support
these students in fulfill-ing
their dreams
through quality nurs-ing
education.”
JO-ANNE TROWBRIDGE MARTIN
BSN ’69
Evelyn Farmer Alexander BSN ’56
Raleigh, NC
William Jennings Booth, Jr.
Apex, NC
Greer Cawood
Winston-Salem, NC
Paul Chused
Kinston, NC
Dr. Franklin Clark, III
Fayetteville, NC
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN ’77
Wilmington, NC
Dr. Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67
Carrboro, NC
Dr. Terry Graedon
Durham, NC
Angela Hall
Salisbury, NC
Karen Coley Harrison, BSN ’65
Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. Patty Hill, BSN ’69
Chapel Hill, NC
Pamela E. Jameson, BSN ’76
Elk Park, NC
Steve Martin
Jackson Springs, NC
Jean Hix McDonald, BSN ’83
Chapel Hill, NC
Joyce Page
Durham, NC
Gary Park
Chapel Hill, NC
Margaret Ferguson Raynor BSN ’67
Garner, NC
President of the Board
Gwen Russell
Fayetteville, NC
Dr. Janet Askew Sipple, MSN ’70
Bethlehem, PA
Carolyn Underwood, BSN ’79
Cary, NC
Charles DeWitt Watts
Durham, NC
HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBERS
Audrey Booth
MSN ’56
Chapel Hill, NC
Carolyn White London
BSN ’56
Durham, NC
Thomas L. Norris, Jr.
Raleigh, NC
Mary Perry Ragsdale (deceased)
Frances Hill Fox (deceased)
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Linda R. Cronenwett
PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Norma Hawthorne
Executive Director
Brad Volk
Assistant Dean
SUMMER 2004 23
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
SON Foundation congratulates new
UNC Hospitals President Gary Park
Gary Park, a SON Foundation
director, was recently named
president of UNC Hospitals by
Dr. William Roper, chief executive
officer of UNC Health Care.
“I am a strong advocate for
nurses and you have my commit-ment
to continue to serve on the
SON Foundation,” Park said at the
April board meeting, noting the
increased demands on his time.
“What this School does is important
for us.”
Park came from Rex Health-care,
where he served as president
and CEO. Under Park’s leadership,
Rex has been a strong supporter of
SON programs, including Nursing
Exploration Week and graduation
ceremonies.
New directors named for
four year terms include William
Jennings Booth (AB ’54) from Apex,
NC; Angela Hall, CPA, Salisbury, NC;
and Jean Hix McDonald (BSN ’83)
from Chapel Hill.
The Foundation Board has
responsibility for the SON endow-ment
and donor support. It
includes alumni, parents, friends
and civic leaders.
SON Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors
Park
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNC HEALTH CARE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MARKETING OFFICE
Explore the options
to increase your
income, save taxes,
protect your heirs
and fulfill your
desire to make a
gift to Carolina and
the School of
Nursing.
Please tell us about
yourself:
Name
Class Year
Address
City/State/Zip
Home Phone
Business Phone
E-mail
Please check all that
apply:
❑ Send me information on gifts
that will provide income to me now
and a future gift to Carolina and
the School of Nursing.
❑ Send me information about
using my retirement plan assets to
make a gift.
❑ Send me language to include
Carolina in my will or living trust.
❑ I have included the SON in my
will and would like information
about the Charles Gerrard Society.
❑ I would like to talk with
someone about how to handle a
confidential gift to Carolina and
the SON.
How would you
like to receive this
information?
❑ US Mail
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24 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
On behalf of SON graduates
and their families, we thank
you for your support!
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Rex Healthcare
University of North Carolina Hospitals
SON Graduation
2004 Patrons
Nursing Exploration Week 2004 Sponsors
These organizations generously provided underwriting and scholarships for talented high school students throughout
North Carolina to attend a one-week residency in Chapel Hill. Their investment to encourage future nurses will help
alleviate shortages and improve patient care.
Duke University
Health System
High Point
Regional Hospital
Rex Healthcare
UNC Hospitals
Building Campaign
Update
Carolina Quick Facts
• By 2020, 18,000 RN vacancies
in NC are projected
• Aging people with chronic
illness will strain the health-care
system
• Qualified students are turned
away because of space limits
and faculty shortages
SON Building Progress Report
• New nursing addition slated
to open spring 2005
• $1.8 million short of $20.8
million total building cost
• At risk: no funds to buy lab
equipment, desks & essentials
• At risk: the best environment
for learning and practice
What can you do to help?
• Inscribe a brick
• Name an office or lab
• Make your Class Gift
• Honor a nurse colleague or
friend
• Make a memorial gift
• Enjoy tax savings, increase cur-rent
income and show your
love for Carolina with a
planned gift
• Add to your current gift or
pledge
• Do something today
SUMMER 2004 25
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Special “University Day” Campaign
Make a “University Day” $200 gift to
the SON Building Fund between NOW
and October 30, 2004 (Alumni Day).
You’ll receive our thanks with a
signed, limited-edition copy of
“University Day” by artist Ed Starnes.
This is a special campaign. If you’ve
already made a gift, this is a great
incentive to add to your commitment
to the SON and help us with the new
building. If you’ve been thinking
about making a gift, perhaps this
premium will spur you to action!
Your tax deductible gift will help
us safeguard the future of a great
nursing program.
✓Yes, I want to make my gift to the “University Day” Campaign
Enclosed is my $200 gift to the SON Building Fund. I’m looking forward to receiving my gift from you:
a signed, limited-edition reproduction of “University Day,” an original watercolor by Ed Starnes. The
painting, a gift of Ramelle (BSN ’55) and Ed Starnes (AB ’54), will hang in the new SON building addition.
Name __________________________________________ Class Year _______________
Address ________________________________________________________________
City/State/ZIP ___________________________________________________________
Home Phone ___________________________ E-mail ____________________________
Method of Payment: ❑ Check ❑ VISA ❑ MasterCard
Please make your check payable to SON Foundation, Inc.
Charge Card # ____________________________________ Exp. Date ________________
Signature ______________________________________________________________
Mail check or credit card information to Norma Hawthorne, Director of Advancement,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, CB #7460, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460.
Questions? Contact Norma_Hawthorne@unc.edu or (919) 966-4619.
1969
Dr. Karen L. Williams (BSN)
recently was elected the first female
chief of staff for the more than 500
person medical staff at Bayfront
Medical Center in St. Petersburg, FL,
where she serves as the medical
director of rehabilitation services.
Last October she was given the peer
selected AJ Gorday Award for Medical
Excellence and Service.
1970
Eileen Cetrangolo (BSN) is
working in orthopedics at Thoms
Rehabilitation Hospital in Asheville,
NC.
1980
Donna Winston Laney (BSN)
recently passed the ANCC certifica-tion
exam in nurse informatics,
making her one of only approxi-mately
1,000 nurses certified in
informatics in the nation. Laney cur-rently
works in systems and business
operations for surgical services at
Carolinas HealthCare System near
Charlotte, NC.
1986
Leesa Thomas (BSN) has been
selected to attend the North Carolina
Center for Nursing’s 2004 Institute
for Nursing Excellence. The institute
is a week-long retreat to reward
direct-care nurses across the state for
their work and to encourage their
leadership abilities. Up to 30 nurses
are chosen for the honor each year.
1992
Lisa Weaver Bull (BSN) and her
husband, David, are the proud par-ents
of their first child, Carolina
Grace, born October 5, 2003.
1994
Michelle Mercer Canfield (BSN)
graduated this past December from
East Carolina University’s family
nurse practitioner program. She cur-rently
serves as a clinical instructor
at ECU and lives in Raleigh, NC,
with her husband George and son
Jonathan.
Audrey Nelson (PhD) was honored
with the University of Nebraska
College of Nursing Outstanding
Alumnus Award in 2003 by the col-lege’s
alumni association.
1995
Nikki L. Eldreth (BSN) and her
husband, Stephen Paul Cherry, wel-comed
their first child, Katherine
Sloan, to the world on January 20.
1998
Rebecca Jones Martin (RN-BSN)
recently completed UNC-Chapel
Hill’s family nurse practitioner pro-gram,
graduating with an MSN in
2003. She continues to live in
Norlina with Bobby and her daugh-ter,
Sierra.
2002
Dr. Susan J. Appel (PhD) is an
assistant professor in the graduate
division of the University of Alabama
School of Nursing. Her primary
teaching responsibilities are in the
acute care nurse practitioner pro-gram.
We want to hear
from you!
To update your address or to
let Carolina Nursing share
your new job, new address, or
special accomplishment with
fellow alums, please use the
form below.
26 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NOTES
WHAT’S NEWWithYou?
Keeping up with each other is hard to do these days. Please let Carolina Nursing share your news! Whether
it’s a new job, special accomplishment, or an addition to your family, we’ll be happy to get the word out for you.
Name (please include maiden name): Class Year:
❑ My address has changed. My new address is:
News:
Please send news to:
Anne Webb,
Alumni Association Director
School of Nursing
UNC-Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
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July 2004
9th Annual Summer Institute on Qualitative Research July 12–16
Instrument Development Institute July 19–23
August 2004
Advanced Principles of Teaching in Nursing August 2–5
Writing for Publication with Elizabeth Tornquist August 20
September 2004
Fundamentals of Clinical Research for Clinical Research Sept. 7–Nov. 30
Associates and Clinical Study Coordinators
Nursing Update RN Refresher Course Sept. 8–Dec. 8
Diabetes Management in Children, Part 2 September 10
Legal Update: Avoiding Nursing Malpractice September 24
Cutting Edge: Focus on GI Disorders September 30
October 2004
Bad Bugs: Infectious Disease Update for Nurses October 7
14th Annual Art of Breastfeeding Conference October 11–13
■ University Day October 12
CPAN/CAPA Review Course October 16
Clinical Teaching October 23
Take a Breath: Respiratory Update for Nurses October 29
■ SON Alumni Association Board Meeting October 29
■ Alumni Day October 30
November 2004
Pediatric Forensic Course November 3–5
Wound Management Conference November 4
Long Term Care Institute November 9–10
4th Annual Pediatric Pain Conference November 12
CCRN Review Course November 17–18
■ SON Foundation Board Meeting November 18
Time Management for Busy Nurses November 19
December 2004
■ Commencement December 19
April 2005
■ SON Foundation Board Meeting April 21
■ SON New Building Dedication April 29
■ Distinguishes University and School of Nursing events from Continuing Education events
Calendar of Events
For more information on
School events, contact the
Office of Advancement.
E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-4619
FAX: (919) 843-8241
http://nursing.unc.edu
For more information or to
register for a continuing
education program, contact
the School of Nursing Office
of Continuing Education.
E-mail: nursing_ce@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-3638
FAX: (919) 966-0870
nursing.unc.edu/lifelong/
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Building a Walkway to the Future...
One Brick at a Time
I am very proud to be a graduate of the
UNC School of Nursing because of the solid
foundation my nursing education gave
me and because of the school’s wonderful
reputation in nursing education.
I also appreciate the outreach efforts
toward alumni, including this opportunity
to name a part of the School to honor the
memory of my middle son.
COLLEEN LEE, BSN 1973
My classmates and I decided to buy a
brick because of the fond memories
we have from nursing school. Just as
the School of Nursing helped us pave
our own futures, this brick will help
us to pave the walkway for future
nurses. It is our way of saying thank
you.
MEG GAMBRELL, BSN 2001
B R I C K O R D E R F O R M
Name Class Year
Address
City State ZIP
Yes, I want to order: ❏ 1 Brick $500 $167 pledge deposit
❏ 2 Bricks $1,000 $334 pledge deposit
❏ 3 Bricks $1,500 $500 pledge deposit
❏ Other amount:_______ Total:_______
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❏ I am making a 3-year pledge and enclosing a pledge deposit.
Please charge my: ❏ Visa ❏ Mastercard
Account #_____________________________ Exp. Date_______
Signature___________________________________________
Thank you for making this gift and for
your support of the SON.
Special Campaigns Steering Committee
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN ’77 Jean Hix McDonald, BSN ’83
Nancy Freeman, BSN ’73 Carolyn Underwood, BSN ’79
Questions? Contact Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or Anne_Webb@unc.edu.
THE UNIVERSITY
of NORTH CAROLINA
at CHAPEL HILL
As I thought about how I could help
the new SON building, I began to
realize how many nurses there were
in my family! I had never stopped to
think about it before and I decided
that a brick would be a great way to
remember and honor them all.
ROBIN HARPER, BSN 1986
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for unbeatable food, fun and football!
The new building addition will be near
completion, so get a sneak peak before
it’s open to all!
Reunion classes include the classes of 1959, 1964,
1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999
Registration begins this fall, so keep an eye
on your mailbox for more information!
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A L U M N I DAY 2004
Saturday, October 30, 2004 at Carrington Hall
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A A T C H A P E L H I L L S C H O O L O F N U R S I N G • S u m m e r 2 0 0 4
Carolina
NURSING
Dear Alumni and Friends,
I hope this summer finds you in
good health, among the people who
love and support you, and with
whom you find comfort. Many of
you will take a much needed respite
from the intensity of your work by
vacationing at the North Carolina
seashore or in the cool of the moun-tains.
Summertime has traditionally
been considered by many of us on
the faculty and staff as a welcome
interlude between May, when classes
end, and August, when students spill
back onto campus to start the aca-demic
year. Indeed, the pulse quick-ens
for these 10 months, but the
rhythm of life and learning at your
School of Nursing has likely
changed since you graduated or
last visited with us.
On Saturday, May 8, we graduat-ed
over 160 BSN, MSN and PhD
students. We then turned around on
Monday, May 10, to welcome 43 stu-dents
into the third cohort to begin
the accelerated 14-month BSN pro-gram
for people who already hold a
baccalaureate degree in another
field. Over Memorial Day Weekend,
faculty worked into the night to
write and edit research grants that
were due the first week in June.
Their nationally acclaimed research
to help patients manage the pain
from cancer, to reduce Type II dia-betes
in adults and children, to help
low income mothers with depression
symptoms help themselves, and to
assess the health of pre-term
infants, to name just a few areas of
expertise, depends upon external
support. I’m pleased to tell you that
we just received word from the
National Institutes of Health that
your SON is now ranked third in the
nation for the research that we do.
The pace and rhythm of
Carrington Hall has changed signif-icantly
from previous years when we
did not admit students in May.
Admission at your School of
Nursing has become a year-round
endeavor so we can do our part to
help educate more nurses to allevi-ate
the shortage, which you will
read more about in this issue of CN.
We are now considering how we can
admit more students to attend the
24-month program by going to
twice a year admissions, thereby
increasing our total enrollments
from 160 to over 200 students in
both the traditional and accelerated
programs. This will mean making
some scheduling adaptations for
curriculum and clinical site experi-ences.
Currently, we must turn away
many qualified students who desire
a baccalaureate nursing education
and seek admission at our School.
We simply do not have sufficient
funds to hire additional faculty and
staff members. And, until the new
building is complete, there is limit-ed
space for expansion. We hope
this will change and we are working
fervently toward the goal of increas-ing
our BSN student admissions.
As a leading SON in the nation,
one of our key roles is to provide
advanced education to create the
faculty who will teach future stu-dents
throughout North Carolina.
With critical resource support, we
will be better able to tell more stu-dents
and their families that they
have been accepted to the SON. Our
priority is to help meet a myriad of
health care demands that our
friends, loved ones, and neighbors
will face here in North Carolina and
in other parts of the nation and
world.
I want to take this opportunity
to thank each of you for what you
do—and will continue to do—
to open your hearts to Carolina
and the School of Nursing. We are
unable to fulfill our promise to pro-vide
excellent nursing education,
science, and care without you.
Sincerely,
LINDA R. CRONENWETT, PHD, RN, FAAN
Dean
FROM THEDean
Carolina Nursing is published by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Nursing for the School’s alumni and friends.
Dean
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor
Sunny Smith Nelson
Contributing Writers
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Anne Webb
Photography
Dr. Anne Belcher
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Andrew Ross
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Shelley Clayton, Work-Study Intern
School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
(919) 966-4619
E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
http://nursing.unc.edu
Summer 2004 Carolina
NURSING
IN THIS ISSUE
6 The Nursing Shortage in North Carolina
8 Opening the Doors of Opportunity: Scholarships that Support
the Future of Nursing
12 From Pen and Paper to Bricks and Mortar: A Chat with
Maggie Miller about the New Building Addition
14 Building Our Future: A Construction Progress Report
18 Nurses Appreciation Day: A Tribute to Our Alums with
Support from Johnson & Johnson
REGULAR FEATURES
2 Roll Call
3 SONdries
16 Noteworthy Nurses
19 Alumni News
22 Development News
26 Alumni Notes
27 Calendar of Events
On the Cover: Ed (AB ’54) and Rae (BSN ’55) Starnes, longtime Carolina
supporters, recently donated two of Ed’s original watercolors to hang in
Carrington Hall and the new building addition. Pictured here is University Day,
a tribute to the people and landmarks that make UNC such a special place.
With a gift to the building fund, you can receive your complimentary copy of
this special painting. See page 25 for more information.
Dr. Linda Beeber
was recognized this
spring as an “emerg-ing
nursing research
star” at the 10th
Annual M. Elizabeth
Carnegie Research
Conference at Howard University in
Washington, DC. She was among only a
handful of nursing researchers recog-nized
for their dedication to reducing
health disparities.
Beth Black was recently awarded the
2004 Mickel-Shaw Excellence in
Advising Award from UNC’s College of
Arts and Sciences and the General
College. This award is based on nomi-nations
by students and is awarded by
the deans of the colleges to one aca-demic
advisor each year for outstanding
work with undergraduate student
advisees.
Congratulations to
Stewart Bond, a
student in the SON
doctoral program and
UNC’s Certificate in
Aging program, who
was one of only six to
win a presentation award at The Aging
Exchange. The event, sponsored by
the UNC Institute on Aging and other
university departments, was created to
recognize the research, education and
service performed at UNC on behalf of
the elderly. Bond’s paper, co-authored
with Drs. Virginia Neelon, Michael
Belyea and doctoral student Su Hyun
Kim, focused on delirium resolution in
older hospitalized cancer patients.
Dr. Barbara Waag
Carlson has been
honored with the 2004
Gordon H. DeFriese
Career Development in
Aging Research Award.
The award is given
annually to recognize outstanding
research and teaching accomplish-ments
in aging research at UNC.
Carlson, an assistant professor and
associate director of the School’s
Biobehavioral Lab, is studying how
events during sleep contribute to cogni-tive
decline in older adults. Carlson is a
double SON alumna, having received
her MSN in 1990 and PhD in 1997.
Dr. Margaret Clayton, a 2003 doc-toral
alumna and current postdoctoral
fellow at the SON, won the Top Young
Scholar Award from the Kentucky
Conference on Health Communication.
The award, sponsored by the Health
Communication Division of the
National Communication Association,
the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Office of Communication,
and the University of Kentucky
Department of Communication, honors
an exceptional researcher who has
earned a doctoral degree in the past five
years. Clayton presented her paper
“Testing a model of communication,
uncertainty and emotional well-being
in older breast cancer survivors” during
the conference at the University of
Kentucky in April.
Congratulations to Dr.
Martha Henderson,
co-recipient of the
American Journal of
Nursing Book of the
Year Award for 2003.
Henderson, the first
author, with UNC co-authors Dr. Laura
C. Hanson and Dr. Kimberly S.
Reynolds, published Improving
Nursing Home Care of the Dying: A
Training Manual for Nursing Home
Staff. The book was chosen as one of
the most valuable nursing texts of 2003
and one of only three recipients in the
gerontological nursing category.
Clinical instructor
Eileen Horn is the
recipient of the UNC
Access Award, an honor
given to faculty who
have shown exception-al
support and under-standing
in their work with students
who have learning disabilities or atten-tion
deficit disorders. The award is pre-sented
annually by the University’s
Learning Disabilities Services
Department.
Congratulations to
Brant Nix, this year’s
Staff of the Year Award
winner. Nix, who is the
SON’s Biobehavioral
Lab manager and bio-medical
technologist,
has been with the School since January
2000. One nomination said of Nix,
“He takes a leadership role in the devel-opment
and standardization of new
technology and has made unique
contributions to several research studies
adapting equipment in special ways
that allows the investigator to gather
data in the field reliably and with fewer
burdens to the research subjects.”
Dr. Anne Skelly has been awarded
the first Distinguished Alumna of the
Year Award from the State University of
New York at Buffalo School of Nursing
in recognition of her work in diabetes
scholarship and research. She graduat-ed
from the university with her BSN in
1976, MSN in 1979 and PhD in 1992.
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ROLL CALL
Beeber Waag Carlson
Nix
Horn
Henderson
Bond
New Faculty
and Faculty
Promotions
Dr. Linda Brown has been
promoted from clinical
assistant professor to clinical
associate professor.
Dr. Donna Havens has
been promoted to professor
with tenure.
Robin Corbett is the SON’s
newest visiting assistant
clinical professor.
Jo Ann Hendricks is the
new health-care coordinator
with the Central Orange
Adult Day Health Center in
Hillsborough, NC. Hendricks
was hired through the SON
to provide part-time care to
the Center’s daily visitors.
New clinical instructors
include Lindsay Allen,
Christine Benson,
Jeanne Brown, Colleen
Glair-Gajewski, Angela
Lee, Janet Morton,
Ruth Ouimette and
Jennie Wagner.
New research instructors
include Phyllis Kennel.
Does race really
matter when it
comes to providing
quality skin and
wound care? This is
a question that Dr.
Courtney H. Lyder,
the University of Virginia Medical
Center professor of nursing and
internal medicine, has spent his
career trying to answer.
Lyder spent a week in Chapel
Hill this February as the SON’s 2004
ethnic minority visiting scholar
speaking with students, faculty,
alumni and nursing colleagues
about the issue. As a senior consult-ant
on skin and wound care issues
for the US Department of Health
and Human Services and the
nation’s first African American man
to hold an endowed professorship in
nursing, many of the folks he spoke
with said he offered a unique
insight into wound care for minori-ties.
According to Lyder, processes of
care appear to depend on race, with
more people of color suffering from
skin and wound care problems. The
cause, he says, includes a dearth of
race-related skin and wound care
research and assessment techniques
that do not include a melanocentric
perspective. With the US population
continuing to “brown” as minori-ties
make up a greater proportion of
the citizenry, the concern over the
issue is expected to grow. The solu-tion?
More research on the issue
and a commitment by nurses to
learn the importance of caring for
all skin types.
SUMMER 2004 3
SONDRIES
Noted skin, wound care treatment specialist visits
SON to share expertise
Dr. Jo Ann Dalton was honored for her School of Nursing service, scholar-ship
and research at the 2004 Kemble Lecture. Pictured here (left to right)
are SON faculty chair Dr. Mary Lynn; Dr. Dalton; Dean Linda Cronenwett;
and featured speaker Dr. Betty Ferrell, seated.
Lyder
When many of Dr. Jo Ann
Dalton’s former students and col-leagues
speak about her, the words
“leader,” “innovator,” and “men-tor”
are often used. Dalton served
the SON and the state’s nursing
community for nearly 30 years as a
trailblazer in pain management
care and research before stepping
down last July to be near her family
in Atlanta. It was only fitting then
that she was honored for her contri-butions
to the profession at the
School’s 2004 Elizabeth L. Kemble
Lecture in March. Dr. Betty Ferrell, a
research scientist at City of Hope
National Medical Center and a rec-ognized
pain management expert in
her own right, was the featured
speaker.
Dr. Ferrell’s presentation, entitled
“The Science and Art of Pain
Management,” explored pain
from both a patient and caregiver
perspective while outlining priorities
for future research. According to
Ferrell, the science of pain manage-ment—
a standard of care for pain
relief, pain assessment, pharmaco-logical
advances and non-drug
treatments—must be combined
with the art of pain manage-ment—
listening and offering com-passion—
in order to better aid
patients in their suffering. And as
pain becomes a larger priority in
the health-care community, nurses
must continue to discover and
develop their own voices, acting as
agents of change, advocacy and
accountability in order to improve
the quality of pain assessment,
management and education.
Perhaps this is why, even in her
“retirement,” Dalton is acting as the
interim associate dean for academic
affairs and chair of the adult and
elder health nursing department at
Emory University’s Nell Hodgson
Woodruff School of Nursing.
Kemble Lecture honors retired pain management
expert, respected faculty member
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SONDRIES
The SON’s Professor Carol P. Fray Office of Multicultural Affairs has
a new web site and advisory board to help advance its mission of
addressing the most salient multicultural issues shaping the lives of
people in a global society. You can learn more about the OMA and its
initiatives by visiting http://nursing.unc.edu/departments/oma/.
Josephine Nelson Osborn (BSN ’71), with a gift of $50,000 to the
building campaign, has named the OMA to honor retired Professor
Carol P. Fray, the first African American faculty member at the SON.
OMA gets new web site, advisory board
Since 1994, the Center for
Research on Chronic Illness has
served as a funding and mentoring
hub for the research performed at
the School of Nursing. Dr. Joanne
Harrell, an internationally noted
researcher on childhood overweight
and cardiovascular risk factors, has
guided the CRCI since its inception.
She recently stepped down as direc-tor
this spring, however, to accept
appointment as the 2004-2005
Frances Hill Fox Scholar and to
focus more intensely on her own
critical research that is claiming
international attention. At a recent
reception to honor Harrell, Dean
Linda Cronenwett thanked her for
her valued leadership and expertise
and welcomed Dr. Diane Holditch-
Davis as the new leader of CRCI. The
Center will continue the majority of
its functions, with the exception of
grant funding, to help the School
remain one of the top nursing
research institutions in the nation.
SON lauds Dr. Joanne Harrell for
decade of leadership with CRCI
Dr. Joanne Harrell
Dr. Rumay Alexander, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Office
of Multicultural Affairs
Ms. Angeline Baker, Nurse Manager,
UNC Hospitals
Ms. Ruby Borden, Secretary, Central
Carolina Nurses Council
Ms. Elizabeth Burkett, MSN ’75
Mr. Moses Carey, Jr., Executive
Director, Piedmont Health Services
Dr. Linda Cronenwett, Dean, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing
Ms. Dianne Evans, Career Counselor,
Cedar Ridge High School
Ms. Brandi Hamlin, MSN Student,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Ms. Edith Hubbard, Associate
Director, UNC-Chapel Hill Office of
Sponsored Research
Dr. Larry Keith, Associate Director,
UNC School of Medicine Office of
Educational Development and
Director, UNC School of Medicine
Special Programs
Dr. Vicki Kowlowitz, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Center
for Instructional Technology and
Educational Support
Mr. Darryl Lester, Principal, Hindsight
Consulting
Dr. Chris McQuiston,
Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing and Director,
Center for Innovation in Health
Disparities Research
Ms. Kathy Moore, Director, UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Nursing Office
of Admissions & Student Services
Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, Director for
Diversity Education and Research,
UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Minority
Affairs
Dr. Theresa Raphael-Grimm, Clinical
Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
School of Nursing
Ms. Anh Tran, PhD Student, UNC
School of Public Health
Mr. Charles Watts, Chief Legal
Counsel, North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance
Ms. Amie Wong, BSN Student,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Mr. Harold Woodard, Associate
Dean, UNC-Chapel Hill Office for
Student Academic Counseling
OMA Advisory Board
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SONDRIES
The School of Nursing celebrat-ed
this year’s National Public Health
Week with a series of informative
and interactive events. Members of
the faculty, students and local com-munity
participated, and many said
they were astonished to learn of the
health disparities that exist in their
own backyard.
The week’s activities kicked off
with a seminar hosted by the Center
for Innovation in Health Disparities
Research, the result of a partnership
among the nursing schools at UNC-Chapel
Hill, Winston-Salem State
University and North Carolina
Central University. The discussion
focused on partnering with minority
communities in developing and
conducting research to reduce
health disparities. A poster presenta-tion
and reception followed.
For those unable to attend the
seminar, two students in the
School’s community health class,
Trudy Perkinson and Anne
McPherson, created a display in the
School’s main lobby. Pictured here,
the students said the purpose of the
display is to raise understanding
and publicize the challenges faced
in improving health care in North
Carolina and the nation. The
display will remain in the lobby
throughout the summer so anyone
visiting the School can learn more
about the issue.
Daily e-mails highlighting
health disparities in North Carolina
were also sent to the school’s faculty,
staff and students. Dr. Jennifer
Leeman, project director for CIHDR,
publicized in the first e-mail some
of the state’s failing grades as
recently reported in the “Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities in North
Carolina 2003 Report Card,” and
disseminated a written copy of the
report and a list of research studies
underway to deal with health dis-parities.
Dr. Sonda Oppewal, the
School’s associate dean for commu-nity
partnerships and practice and
American Public Health Association
(APHA) Public Health Nursing
Section immediate past chairperson,
helped to organize the week���s
activities.
“Each e-mail focused on a dif-ferent
aspect of racial and ethnic
health disparities by using the
resources from APHA related to dis-parities,”
said Oppewal. “The e-mail
messages summarized information
about disparities among groups
related to specific diseases, among
rural groups, women and minority
populations. The entire week’s focus
on health disparities engaged every-one
in better understanding prob-lems
of health disparities that face
an incredible number of Americans
and helped us all become better
aware of success stories related to
helping reduce disparities. The hope
was that everyone who sees this
message will take an active interest
and become involved with helping
to create a healthier nation that no
longer is marked by disparities
according to race, ethnicity, gender,
residence, literacy or socioeconomic
status.”
SON Celebrates
National Public
Health Week
The week’s focus
on health disparities
engaged everyone
in better under-standing
problems
of health disparities
that face an incred-ible
number of
Americans, and
helped us all
become better
aware of success
stories related to
helping reduce
disparities.
The nursing shortage in North
Carolina—that nebulous phrase so
often thrown about but a term that
few have a firm grasp upon—has
finally been pinned down by a
group of the state’s most respected
nursing administrators, caretakers
and policy makers. Known as the
North Carolina Institute of
Medicine’s Nursing Shortage Task
Force, this group met for over a year
to discuss the issue, studying cur-rent
statistics such as age, race,
gender, migration, compensation
and the educational system that
produces the state’s newest caretak-ers.
They applied the latest numbers
to create projections of what to
expect in the next two to three
decades. Their results were a wake-up
call, to say the least.
Dean Linda Cronenwett, who
participated on the task force along-side
Dr. Cynthia Freund, the group’s
co-chair and the SON’s dean emeri-ta,
has special insight into the find-ings.
“The task force had members
from all aspects of nursing, health
care, government and education,”
she says. “Every issue reached the
table, and data were used as the
basis for proposing
solutions for North Carolina.”
Age appears to be the biggest
threat to the profession with the
nursing workforce and the state’s
population both graying. According
to the latest figures, 14% of regis-tered
nurses and 18% of licensed
practical nurses in North Carolina
are over the age of 55. This means
that a large portion of the nursing
workforce will be retiring within the
next ten years, just as the state’s
population is on its way to growing
by nearly 2 million more new
citizens.
As for the state’s general popula-tion,
the number of North
6 CAROLINA NURSING
The Nursing Shortage
in North Carolina
“The task force had
members from all
aspects of nursing,
health care, govern-ment
and education.
Every issue reached
the table, and data
were used as the basis
for proposing solutions
for North Carolina.”
DEAN LINDA CRONENWETT
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
You knew it was coming. You’ve heard your
friends and colleagues in other states saying
they were hit hard by it. But you probably
didn’t know it was going to be this severe.
Carolinians over the age of 65 is
expected to double by 2030. Those
over the age of 85 are projected to
increase by more than 150%.
Demand for nurses with more
specialized skills, particularly in
geriatrics, will skyrocket as a result.
This is a scary thing to contemplate
when you consider that, according
to one recent study, each additional
patient added to a nurse’s workload
increases the probability of patient
mortality by 7%.
Relying on the state’s traditional
supply of nurses—young white
women—to solve this shortage sim-ply
won’t work, the task force found.
This group has many more career
options open to them than their
mothers or grandmothers did. And
while many within this population
do want to pursue nursing, the
state’s nursing schools cannot meet
the demand. A number of nursing
schools across North Carolina,
including UNC-Chapel Hill, have
had to deny admission to qualified
students because they don’t have the
budget to expand enrollments.
Other problems experienced by these
schools include lack of space, quali-fied
faculty and sites for clinical
education. Last year, more than
4,100 potential RNs and 680 poten-tial
LPNs were turned away because
of schools’ budget constraints. And
just as the state’s population of
nurses and citizens is getting older,
so are the nursing educators.
So what are the solutions to the
shortage?
Simply put, North Carolina must
face each of these issues head on.
Nursing education programs must
receive more resources to be able to
educate more nurses. Recruiting
non-traditional students such as
men and minorities—who will
more accurately reflect the state’s
citizenry—is a must. The state can-not
rely on the in-migration of
nurses from other states—which so
far has helped North Carolina fare
better than many of her neigh-bors—
to fill the upcoming swell in
vacancies. Working conditions must
improve. Salaries must rise to meet
inflation.
“Everyone with a stake in this
issue—and that includes nurses—
needs to speak up,” notes
Cronenwett. “Let your legislators
know that we need to expand nurs-ing
enrollments. Let employers
know that nurses are a resource you
value—and one that they should,
too.”
The alternative may be a
situation that none of us are ready
to face.
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Quick Facts
The North Carolina Institute
of Medicine Task Force was
funded by a grant from the
Duke Endowment.
Task force members met from
January 2003 to May 2004.
Dean Emerita Cynthia Freund
co-chaired the group with
Joseph D. Crocker, the senior
vice president and manager
of community affairs at
Carolinas Banking.
Other SON representatives on
the task force included Dean
Linda Cronenwett; Ernest
Grant, an adjunct faculty
member and outreach clini-cian
with the NC Jaycee Burn
Center; Michael Gates, a doc-toral
candidate; and eight
SON alumni representing sev-eral
different health-care insti-tutions.
The average age of an RN in
1983 was 38.3 years. In
2001, the average age was
43.6 years.
The average age of an LPN in
1983 was 40.5 years. In
2001, the average age was
44.9 years.
Those choosing to go into
nursing are doing so at later
ages. The average age of
nursing graduates in 2000
was 30.5 years, compared to
24.3 in 1984.
Only 12% of RNs and 26%
of LPNs in North Carolina are
a racial or ethnic minority,
compared to 28% of the
state’s general population.
Only 6% of the state’s RNs
and 5% of the LPNs are men.
The RN and LPN workforce
must grow by 50% over the
next decade to avoid a short-age.
Elizabeth Peters, a
14-month student,
is set to graduate
in August and join
the nursing work-force
at UNC
Hospitals. She's
pictured here with
Elaine Harwood,
one of her clinical
mentors and a SON
faculty member.
The looming nursing shortage
that has been the talk of national
health-care circles has finally found
its way to North Carolina, with the
N.C. Institute of Medicine reporting
a 12% shortage across the state.
This has dire implications for North
Carolina’s citizens, especially as the
number of nurses is projected to
continue decreasing as the popula-tion
increases. In February the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Bureau of
Labor Statistics reinforced this need
for more nurses with a report that
registered nurses top the list of 10
occupations with the most growth
potential through 2012. So with this
demand for more nurses, what
often is a deciding factor for those
who would be future nurses? Simply
put, it’s money. Total program fees
for the SON’s in-state 24-month
program, which covers tuition, uni-versity
and clinical fees for four
semesters and two summers of
study, is over $10,000. For out-of-state
students, the cost skyrockets to
over $39,000. Scholarships for these
potential nurses can often mean the
difference between pursuing a pro-fessional
dream and searching for a
more affordable though less satisfy-ing
alternative. Of the 530 students
at the SON this past academic year,
over 150 were on a full or partial
scholarship.
Over the next three years, the
School has a goal of creating 50
new scholarships for nursing stu-dents,
thereby helping ensure a
more stable supply of the state’s
most scarce health-care resource.
Featured here are the stories behind
a few of the SON’s scholarships and
the nursing students whose lives
have been transformed by them.
8 CAROLINA NURSING
Scholarships That Support the Future of Nursing
Opening the Doors of
Open the doors of
opportunity to talent
and virtue and they will
do themselves justice.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON, ANNE WEBB AND NORMA HAWTHORNE
Audrey Booth
(MSN ���56), the
SON’s first MSN
graduate, was
honored recently
with a named
scholarship funded
by Walter Royal
Davis. She is pic-tured
here with
scholarship recipi-ent
Sherree
Skinner (BSN ’04).
Helene Fuld Health Trust
Scholarship Fund for
Baccalaureate Nursing
Students
Helene Schwab Fuld lived dur-ing
the Golden Age of New York in
the nineteenth century, yet she was
not immune to the wretched pover-ty
that existed in the city only
blocks from the mansions of the
Vanderbilts, Astors and Gettys.
During her lifetime she worked
hard to relieve the sickness, suffer-ing
and deprivation that she
encountered. In the process, she
passed along the value of helping
those in need to her children
Leonhard and Florentine.
When Helene died in 1923, the
Fuld siblings created a foundation
in her name to continue her work.
The foundation’s purpose was
refined in 1961 to support “the
health and welfare of student nurs-es,”
and today the Trust, now
administered by HSBC Bank USA, is
the country’s largest private founda-tion
devoted exclusively to support-ing
nursing students and their edu-cation.
The Fuld’s good intentions
touched UNC this spring when the
Trust awarded over half a million
dollars to create a scholarship fund
for undergraduate nursing students.
Between eight to 10 scholarships
will be awarded annually beginning
this fall based on students’ finan-cial
need. Award amounts will
range from $2,500 to $3,500,
depending on the annual income
generated by the endowment.
“The Helene Fuld Health Trust
has made an investment in an out-standing
school of nursing whose
combination of low tuition and
high quality students will return
great value on this endowment for
generations to come,” says Dean
Linda Cronenwett. “We are proud
that our baccalaureate program,
students and faculty were deemed
worthy of this extraordinary grant.”
James M. Johnston
Scholarship Fund
Among the university’s most
prestigious need-based merit
awards, the James M. Johnston
Scholarship Fund grants the largest
number of annual scholarships to
nursing students each year. In 2003,
18 undergraduate- and masters-level
nursing students received
awards from the fund. While all
UNC students with financial need
are considered for a scholarship,
merit determines the winners. The
stipend covers all expenses for the
award winners, a fact that helps
students like Brandi Hamlin con-centrate
on studies instead of worry-ing
about bills.
Registered nurses taking contin-uing
education classes sponsored by
the SON are also eligible for
Johnston Scholarships on a first-come,
first-served basis. In 2003,
the SON’s continuing education
department awarded over 1300
scholarships.
A UNC student himself, Johnston
appreciated the value of a Carolina
education. With the knowledge and
SUMMER 2004 9
Opportunity
Brandi Hamlin
BSN ’01, MSN ’04
Johnston Scholarship recipient 1997-2001 & 2003-2004
“The Johnston Scholars Program has truly made a
difference in helping me achieve my goals in higher
education. I first received a Johnston scholarship as a
rising freshman prior to starting school as an under-graduate
at Carolina. As an out-of-state student, the
program was the only way that I was able to afford
to come to Carolina. This scholarship took the place
of thousands of dollars of student loans that I observe
many of my out-of-state friends struggling to pay
even now three years after graduation. I was able
to return to graduate school full-time only one year
after graduation and reduce my work hours without
worrying about paying back college tuition because
of my undergraduate Johnston scholarship. When I
received a scholarship for the 2003-2004 school year, I
was completely overjoyed. As a second-time Johnston
scholarship award winner, I feel truly blessed to have
been chosen to participate in this wonderful program
again.
“It is essential that scholarships be available for gradu-ate
nursing students because many of these students
experience changes in their income as they reduce
their work hours to attend school. Many graduate
students also still have student loans from their under-graduate
degrees. In addition, many graduate nursing
students have families that they must continue to
support while attending school. Thus, scholarships
really make a difference in supporting graduate
nursing students financially and allowing them to
focus on obtaining their graduate education instead
of financing their graduate education.
“If someone is considering establishing a scholarship
for students, I would tell them to ‘Go for it!’ In a time
of a critical nursing shortage, the nursing profession is
in dire need of more monetary support for future
nurses, future advanced practice nurses and future
nurse leaders.”
Jen Hammontree
BSN ’04
Cora Pitts Barbee Scholarship recipient 2003-2004
“This is the first scholarship
I’ve won and it has relieved
some of my financial worry
while allowing me more time
to focus on my studies. At a
recent dinner I was fortunate
enough to meet several
alumni who have given back
to the School by funding
scholarships, and it was a
wonderful opportunity for
me and a few of my fellow
scholarship recipients to say ‘thank you.’ These
scholarships are important because tuition expenses
continue to rise. I would encourage everyone who
can to establish a scholarship. It is tax deductible,
and the recipient will save hundreds of dollars in
interest by avoiding student loans.”
skills he gained during his time in
Chapel Hill, Johnston went on to
found an investment banking firm
in Washington, DC, and buy the
Washington Senators basketball
team in the 1960s. Through this
scholarship fund, his love of learn-ing
and UNC lives on.
“Strong nursing education pre-pares
competent and caring nurses
and develops the foundation upon
which to build our future clinicians,
researchers, educators, administra-tors
and policy makers in health
care, but it is costly,” notes Dr.
Beverly Foster, clinical associate
professor and director of undergrad-uate
nursing programs.
“Scholarships allow us to provide
opportunities for qualified appli-cants,
who might otherwise be
excluded based on cost, to take this
first professional step.”
Ann P. Trowbridge
Scholarship Fund
A gracious spirit—this is how
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
describes her mother. Ann Pierce
Trowbridge wanted to be a nurse so
she could share that spirit with oth-ers,
but life circumstances and obli-gations
prevented her. She was espe-cially
pleased, then, when her
daughter announced that she want-ed
to pursue nursing. Martin
entered the SON in the 1960s when,
she says, scholarships weren’t as
readily available.
“When I was a student nurse,
very few of my peers worked except
during the summer months,” she
says. “Life was simple and much
more affordable. Most parents saved
for years to provide for their chil-dren’s
college tuition and board.
Today times are different. A scholar-ship
offers the student an opportu-nity
to focus not only on academics,
but to experience the full arena of
campus life without the added
financial burden. During my senior
year I was fortunate to receive a
Navy Nurse Corps Scholarship, so I
am well aware of the impact such a
gift can make.”
When her mother passed away
from brain cancer in 1981, Martin
decided to begin a scholarship fund
to honor her memory. She made the
personal goal of contributing to the
fund annually on her mother’s
birthday. The fund is also a way for
her to honor her Carolina nursing
roots and the future of Carolina
nursing. This year, she converted
the expendable scholarship into a
permanently endowed fund that will
benefit students in perpetuity.
“To anyone considering estab-lishing
a nursing scholarship, I
would say that assisting a student to
become a nurse is a small invest-ment
in the future of our nation’s
health care,” she says. “It is a gift
which keeps on giving because one
nurse reaches out to touch many
lives.”
10 CAROLINA NURSING
The SON recently hosted a dinner to recognize several scholarship donors
and recipients. Pictured here are Jen Hammontree and Jo-Anne and Ted
Martin.
Frances Ader Read
Scholarship Fund
Henry and Frances Read (BSN
’58) are a couple with true philan-thropic
spirit. They give of their
time and talent in many ways, so it
was not surprising when Henry
chose to surprise his wife with a
named scholarship in her honor. As
Henry says, “I believe that we are
only here for a short time, and that
we must give back to those things
that are meaningful to us.”
Henry was gifted with a named
scholarship at St. Mary’s College
where he worked for many years.
He found that a contribution to a
student’s education was truly
rewarding and wanted his wife to
experience the same feeling.
“I’ve never seen anyone who loved
nursing as much as Frances does,
and I love her,” he explains. Henry
surprised Frances with the scholar-ship
in 1997, saying he felt like
she had given so much to nursing
that he wanted to leave a tangible
recognition of her life in the area
that meant the most to her.
In many ways nursing was in
Frances’ blood. Her grandfather and
father were physicians, and Frances
was fascinated with patient care.
She spent as much time as she was
allowed in her father’s office watch-ing
the nurses in action. When the
time came for college, she knew
that nursing was her goal. She
entered Carolina in 1954, where she
met Henry. Much of her nursing
career was in the area of public
health, but she also served many
years as a nursing instructor.
Frances is retired now, but continues
to work on a part-time basis. This
lifelong dedication to nursing and
education lives on each year in
Frances’ work with patients. It also
lives on through future nurses,
studying at Carolina with the assis-tance
of the Frances Ader Read
Scholarship.
Eunice Morde Doty
Scholarship Fund
This year undergraduate nurs-ing
students will immediately bene-fit
from the gift that Carol Morde
Ross (AB ��64) recently made to
show her deep affection and respect
for her mother, Eunice Morde Doty.
Ross wanted to create a lasting
tribute and to honor her mother’s
life with a scholarship that would
enable nursing students to attend a
baccalaureate degree program in
the way her mother had wished to,
but could not, in spite of having
graduated as valedictorian of her
high school class in 1936. Financial
support for college was not an
option for Doty during the Great
Depression, yet through sheer deter-mination
she graduated from the
diploma nursing program at
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston in 1939.
Through this scholarship,
Ross says she has found a way to tell
her mother’s story—how strongly
committed her mother was to the
well-being of her family and to the
principles of her profession—and
to keep it alive into the future.
She also tells us how Doty was a
role-model during her 40-plus year
nursing career and shares Doty’s
values and ideals. Doty provided the
foundation for learning and inquiry
that shaped Ross’ life to prepare
her to become a psychiatric clinical
nurse specialist. Now Carolina nurs-ing
student scholarship recipients
will be able to tell others how the
Eunice Morde Doty scholarship
enabled them to attain their
dreams.
In 1994, Doty moved to the
Glenaire Continuing Care
Retirement Community in Cary, NC.
Today, she resides in the assisted
living unit, provided with care
and comfort by devoted and com-passionate
nurses like her. Ross
indicated that it was a tremendous
privilege to be able to present this
scholarship to her mother during
her mother’s lifetime. A reception,
hosted by Ross and the SON, was
held at Glenaire on January 10,
2004.
“The scholarship that I have
established in my mother’s name is
to express my deep love for her and
to say thanks for being my mom,”
says Ross. “It is also intended to
acknowledge the wonderful contri-bution
she has made to nursing and
to tell the world that she was an
outstanding nurse who truly cared
about others.”
To learn more about establishing
a SON scholarship or contributing
to an existing fund, visit
http://nursing.unc.edu/develop-ment/
campaign.html or call
Advancement Director Norma
Hawthorne at (919) 966-4619.
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PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
Carol Ross with her
mother, Eunice
Morde Doty, at a
reception honoring
Ms. Doty and the
scholarship recently
established in her
name.
CN: You’ve headed up the
School’s efforts to get this new
building addition from pen and
paper to bricks and mortar. How
did you come by that job?
MM: I just happened to be in the
right place at the right time. Dean
Cronenwett asked if I might consid-er
it. At first I said “No, I don’t think
so,” but then after I thought about
it, I realized it was a wonderful
opportunity...so I quickly went back
and said, “Sure, I would love to do
it!” I think the dean appreciated
that I am a detail-oriented person,
and the creation of this addition is
full of details.
CN: When did the School first
start tossing around the idea of
building an addition?
MM: Dean Cindy Freund started
the process of looking at a new
building addition back in the early
1990s. Significant growth in the
School’s research programs, the
opening of the PhD program,
expanded use of clinical lab facili-ties
as well as other School initia-tives
made it evident that a new
addition was required.
CN: Why is this new addition so
important? How will it benefit
the students, faculty and alumni?
MM: Much of the new addition
is for growth that has already
occurred. We were using the current
Carrington Hall well beyond full
capacity before we started construc-tion.
The new addition will provide
more conference rooms for faculty
and student use, more funded proj-ect
space so grant teams can have
adequate work space, more clinical
skills lab facilities to accommodate
increased use at the BSN and MSN
levels, faculty offices that allow for
privacy and concentration, and
dedicated archiving areas so we
don’t have to use the attic or the
basement where records aren’t as
secure as we’d like them to be. The
addition will give us breathing
room to continue the work of the
School and will accommodate
growth of our educational, research
and clinical initiatives.
CN: What have been the biggest
challenges in getting the addition
built?
MM: At different times during this
process, we've sought faculty, staff,
student and alumni input in shap-ing
the priorities for the space and
how it should be designed. By far
the biggest challenge for me has
been trying to show these parties
that their suggestions were really
heard and that we tried to incorpo-rate
them into the actual building
when design and budget would
allow. Planning the space has been
a balancing act between what was
wanted, what was needed, and what
we could afford. Also, we knew that
the selected building site would be
challenging because of the number
of utilities that run through it, but
the alternative would not have
provided enough space to meet our
current needs, not to mention that
it would have squeezed a building
between Carrington Hall and
Columbia Street. To top that off, the
creation of the temporary utilities
took longer than expected, and
then we encountered more rock
than expected....lots of big sturdy
boulders. The contractor had to
reroute numerous utilities and do
a lot more digging under Medical
Drive and in the exact area where
they needed to erect the tower crane.
Without the tower crane, there
wasn’t a lot of progress on the
actual building.
CN: And what would you say
have been the biggest joys in
creating this new space?
MM: Despite all the problems,
this has just been fun. I’ve really
enjoyed sharing our plans with
alumni, faculty, staff and students
and inviting them to come see the
new building. Now that we have
some walls and columns, people
in the building are beginning to
realize that it’s going to actually
happen and they have started to get
a little excited. I also know that this
12 CAROLINA NURSING
From Pen and Paper
to Bricks and Mortar:
A Chat with Maggie Miller about the New Building Addition
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
When Maggie Miller was a little girl, she would
watch with interest as her dad, a builder in Tennessee,
would spread his blueprints over the dining room table.
His visions of big new buildings fascinated her. Little did
she know that one day she would be involved in
creating a big new building herself.
Miller, now an accomplished nurse, UNC alum
(MSN ’77, PhD ’90) and the SON’s assistant dean for
student and faculty services, has been a driving force
behind the creation of the School’s new building
addition. From helping choose the location to selecting
chairs for the new auditorium, Miller has been involved
every step of the way. The following is a recent interview
with Miller on the status of the addition, her labor of
love over the past four years, and what the new space
will mean to future Carolina nurses.
building will serve the School for
many years to come, and it’s a great
deal of satisfaction to know that I
have had a small role in that.
CN: What are some of the
features you are most proud of
in this new addition?
MM: We have created some infor-mal
spaces so folks can gather, talk
and share experiences. The other
feature that I'm proud of is that the
building is “environmentally friend-ly.”
The green roof will help handle
storm water, and even the construc-tion
debris is being recycled or
disposed of in an environmentally-friendly
manner.
CN: How will the building
advance nursing education,
practice and research?
MM: The new space means
we can accommodate increased
enrollments once funding is
available for faculty positions. Of
course our research projects benefit
the state of North Carolina and the
nation. Adequate space should
encourage more research and
practice initiatives.
CN: What is the projected move-in
date for students and faculty?
MM: The current official date for
the building to be turned over to us
is November 5, 2004, and hopefully
we can move in before spring
semester. The contractor admits that
this date represents a very optimistic
timeline and it may not be possible.
They plan on working extended
hours and have been trying to
coordinate the subcontractors so
that delays are minimal, but
frankly, I think it'll take a miracle
for us to make that date.
CN: So when will alums and
friends be able to tour the
building for the first time?
MM: Alumni Day on October 30,
2004, is just before the scheduled
completion, but we may be able to
open a floor or two for tours. The
official ribbon cutting will be in the
spring of 2005, and all alumni and
friends will be invited back to the
SON for the celebration.
.
CN: How important is the
support of alums, friends,
students, faculty and staff in
getting this addition built?
MM: We were fortunate that this
building was included in the
Education Bond of 2000, and the
University has certainly been sup-portive
of this endeavor. However,
the School needed to raise $4 mil-lion
in private funds to make this
building a reality, and last time I
checked we had over $1 million left
to reach our goal...so our supporters
have and still can play a tremen-dously
important role by making a
pledge to the building. A contribu-tion
to the building is a great way to
give back to the School, or to give a
gift to honor someone else. I look at
it as a way to be part of the School
for many years to come.
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PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
14 CAROLINA NURSING
November 2002
Construction began
immediately after
Alumni Day, with the
builder moving equip-ment
into the con-struction
area.
December 2002
The land was cleared
and work on moving
underground utility
lines for the SON, the
medical school and
UNC Hospitals began.
These utilities included
steam, chilled water,
phone and electricity.
April 2003
Many surprises were
found while the utilities
were being moved—
unknown pipelines, hid-den
phone lines, and
even an underground
vault that was not
marked on anyone’s
maps. The temporary
utility lines can be seen
to the right of the photo.
August 2003
Huge boulders were
found that further
delayed construction.
The builder had to
arrange for them to be
hauled away, several of
them occupying an
entire truck bed alone.
Building Our Future: A Construction Progress Report
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
Carrington Hall
Built in 1969
Sq Ft = 71,440
New Addition
To be finished: 2004
Sq Ft = 69,350
1969
160 students
28 courses
$22,000 research
2004
530 students
Over 100 courses
$10.1+ mil research
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
January 2004
Fortunately, once these
problems were dealt
with, the ground was
cleared, graded and
made ready for true
construction on the
building to begin.
February 2004
The highly anticipated
crane tower is pictured
here. Construction of
the building was
dependent upon it, but
it could not be secured
in its concrete founda-tion
until work on the
ground was completed.
March 2004
With everything now in
place, the pace of con-struction
picked up
dramatically. Columns
and flooring appeared
quickly. Pictured here
is the sub-basement of
the addition.
April 2004
This photo, like the
one from August 2003,
was captured with a
“fish-eye” camera lens
to give a more compre-hensive
view of the
work. Clearly defined
walls can be seen at
this point.
May 2004
Construction has pro-gressed
to what will
become the ground
floor of the addition by
this point. Floors and
walls are now clearly
distinguishable. We’ve
got a real building in
front of us!
Anne Webb, associate director
of alumni affairs, has spoken with
many of the SON’s alums about
their experiences in nursing school
over the years, including several
members of the Class of 1970 who
were the first to attend class in the
newly constructed Carrington Hall.
Here are a few of the fun things
she’s learned from some of you.
Just think what the Class of 2005
will be saying in 35 years!
The late 1960s was a time of
great change and growth at the
School of Nursing and the
University as a whole. Culminating
in the dedication of Carrington
Hall in 1969, the students of the
time were in constant transforma-tion.
When they entered Carolina
as freshmen, the BSN Class of
1970 became the first group to
complete the program of two years
of general college work before get-ting
into their nursing curriculum.
They were also the last class to be
admitted to the nursing school as
freshmen. This curriculum change
was put in place to bring the pro-gram
more in line with other bac-calaureate-
level degrees at the
University. Research was gaining in
prominence during this time as well.
Culturally, life was changing
on campus as more females were
admitted to Carolina and the
Association of Women Students
was started. The Class began with
the same strict guidelines as the
classes before them, including
mandatory closed study and watch-ful
monitoring of activities. By the
time they graduated, things had
changed significantly. The Class of
1970 spent its final semester in
Carrington Hall. Gwen Waddell
Schultz, who got her BSN that year,
said the students thought of it as a
“mansion,” but were not thrilled by
having to now study at the Health
Sciences Library since the old build-ing
had its own library. Schultz
recalls a very cold, windy day when
Mrs. Carrington dedicated the
building that bore her name—a
dream come true.
Nursing finally had its own
facility and took its place among
the other UNC health affairs
schools.
And A Look at the Past….
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
BY NORMA HAWTHORNE
Today Dr. Anne Belcher is
associate dean for academic affairs
at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing. When she
graduated from Chapel Hill in 1967,
nursing students were accepted as
freshmen, wore uniforms of
starched cotton dresses and lived
together in the nursing dorm. What
hasn’t changed is the rigor of the
program and the preparation to
take on just about any nursing
challenge new graduates face.
“There were so many opportuni-ties
to choose from and so many
different roles that nurses could
assume,” Belcher says. “I felt I was
prepared to take on just about any-thing.”
And she did. Right after
graduation Belcher went to work at
UNC Hospitals, and it wasn’t long
before she became night nurse-in-charge.
“The faculty taught me
great skills and helped me fully
understand the value, scope and
power of a good nurse,” she says.
“I was ready for anything.”
The program also introduced
her and her classmates, still a tight-knit
group, to national leaders in
their field who came to Chapel Hill
to speak. As a result, they could
learn perspectives of other nursing
disciplines. This, combined with the
value of a liberal arts education,
helped prepare her for her own pro-fessional
leadership role in academ-ic
nursing. She recalls questioning
why she needed to take a political
science course as a nursing student,
but by the time the course was over,
she realized that politics had a lot to
do with health-care policies.
After earning the MSN at the
University of Washington, Belcher
went on to Florida State University
in Tallahassee to teach. She was
there for nine years and earned the
PhD in higher education. Every-where
she studied and taught, the
faculty sensed her creative energy
and solid grounding. “I attribute
that to my strong BSN program,”
Belcher says.
She spent the next several years
teaching master’s and doctoral stu-dents
at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham, then transferred to
UAB Hospital to organize a staff
development program for nurses
that included teaching critical
thinking skills needed to set priori-ties
and identify multiple needs. She
was then sought out to start a mas-ter’s
degree track in oncology nurs-ing
at Memorial Sloan Kettering in
New York City, where she later
became associate dean for academic
affairs.
“New York was great, but it was
far from home, and when the
University of Maryland wanted to
start a master’s focus in oncology
nursing, I jumped at it,” she says.
Belcher was there for 12 years,
becoming department chair and
continuing to teach and work with
students—her first love—never
really seeing herself exclusively as
an administrator. Later, after a time
commuting to Philadelphia to
Thomas Jefferson University, she
returned to Baltimore and her cur-rent
position.
Students say Belcher has a great
sense of humor and makes learning
fun. “That’s the best feedback I can
get,” she says. “I know that when I
have this kind of impact on stu-dents,
the patients they care for will
also directly benefit from my work.
“When people ask me the most
important issue facing nursing, it is
easy to respond that it’s the nursing
shortage. Yet, for me, it is the bigger,
more complex issue about how peo-ple
can stay healthy. As a society, we
are each raised with differing values
about health and lifestyle, and as
nurses we must be sensitive to this.
When I teach about chronic illness,
aging and diversity issues, I want
students to be aware that not every-one
approaches a health issue the
same way.
“My Chapel Hill memories are
wonderful, and I’m very proud of
being a UNC alumna,” she contin-ues.
“My dad was there when I
received the School’s Alumna of the
Year Award. It was great. I miss both
my parents and wanted to do some-thing
to honor their memory and
what they did for me by sending me
to Carolina. That’s why I’ve named
a room in their honor in the new
building.”
16 CAROLINA NURSING
NOTEWORTHY NURSES
Dr. Anne Belcher, BSN ’67
Lt. Col. Mona Bingham, PhD ’02
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
It’s funny the paths that life takes
you. Mona Bingham never pictured
herself as a nurse, let alone a nurse
in the US Army. Nor did she in her
wildest dreams ever think she would
end up in a combat zone caring for
soldiers, civilians and enemy prison-ers
of war. But that’s exactly where
her path took her last year.
Bingham, a 2002 graduate of the
SON’s doctoral program, began her
career in psychology. She performed
laboratory research and worked with
adolescents at a private inpatient
facility, but found that she was
drawn to the work performed by the
psychiatric nurses on duty there. She
decided at that time to get her nurs-ing
degree, and the US Army
Reserves was a good way to help pay
for it. Once she graduated from
Texas Woman’s University, she had
several job offers in the state, but
after her time away from home in
California discovered that she want-ed
to return west. The Army beck-oned
with full-time active duty, and
Bingham accepted, especially when
she learned that she could continue
her nursing education with full
scholarships. She earned her MSN
PHOTO COURTESY OF MONA BINGHAM, PHD ’02 PHOTO COURTESY OF ANNE BELCHER, BSN ’67
“When people ask me
the most important
issue facing nursing,
it is easy to respond
that it’s the nursing
shortage. Yet, for me,
it is the bigger, more
complex issue about
how people can stay
healthy. As a society,
we are each raised
with differing values
about health and
lifestyle, and as nurs-es
we must be sensi-tive
to this.”
ANNE BELCHER
from the University of Nevada at
Reno and decided to head east for
her PhD. It was the groundbreaking
research and mentoring spirit of
Professor Joanne Harrell that attract-ed
her to UNC.
“I was so excited at the wealth of
information and intellectual stimu-lation
all over the campus,” she
says. “But most important, for some
reason, it just felt like home to me. I
loved the chance to work with Dr.
Harrell and her research team, and I
gained a wonderful education—very
well rounded—including time to
watch sports and learn from multi-disciplinary
presentations.”
It was just when she was ready to
graduate from Carolina and begin
her research career as an Army
nurse that she was called to serve in
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
Bingham was deployed with the
47th Combat Support Hospital
(CSH) to Camp Wolf in Kuwait. At
296 beds and the largest combat
hospital established during OIF, the
47th CSH was designated as the
evacuation point during the entirety
of the operation. She served in many
roles during her time there, includ-ing
infection control officer, preven-tive
medical officer and ultimately
as the assistant chief nurse. It was
during her time serving as the head
nurse for the hospital’s ward desig-nated
for enemy prisoners of war
and displaced civilians that she
encountered her most moving expe-riences.
“Working as head nurse with
brand new BSN nurses was an
honor,” explains Bingham. “I was
able to mentor, guide and experience
with them enormous challenges and
personal growth. I believe we learned
and felt the essence of nursing—
that pain and suffering is universal,
and that we have accepted a job and
oath to relieve that pain and pro-mote
healing. War has many faces,
and we were privileged to see a dif-ferent
side.”
Bingham’s experiences were
eventually chronicled in the US
Army Surgeon General’s report,
“Providing Quality Medical Care in
the Crucible of Battle.”
Now back in the US, Bingham
is pursuing her research career
that was put on hold by war. She
currently serves as the chief of the
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Outcomes Program at Madigan
Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA.
And, true to the unexpected paths
that life takes, she is using her war
experience in her research, serving
as an associate investigator of three
grants investigating nursing and sol-dier
health-care issues and leading
her own study to learn more about
military personnel’s perceptions of
deployment.
She credits her nursing career
and education, particularly that
from UNC, with making her the
leader she is today.
“I have seen that humanity has
enormous depths, and nursing is a
special place to observe that,” says
Bingham. “But if you asked me
what was the most important thing I
gained from UNC, I would tell you
the personal relationships of the
many faculty who worked with me
and shared their thoughts and expe-riences.
Also, the closeness of my fel-low
students—discussions in and
out of class, the Thursday night
happy hours, the evenings on my
patio, the laughter and tears, and
the incredible memories. I have been
truly blessed throughout my life with
great inspirational people who have
helped me in life. I have had the
best of mentors, incredible personal
and work experiences, and the clos-est
and best of friendships. What is
life but these things?”
SUMMER 2004 17
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MONA BINGHAM, PHD ’02
“I have seen that
humanity has enor-mous
depths, and
nursing is a special
place to observe that.
But if you asked me
what was the most
important thing I
gained from UNC,
I would tell you the
personal relationships
of the many faculty
who worked with
me and shared
their thoughts and
experiences.”
MONA BINGHAM
BY ANNE WEBB
This year alumni were honored
guests for a day of continuing edu-cation
and friendship at their alma
mater in celebration of a new and
exciting approach to Nurses
Appreciation Week.
Alumni Nurses Appreciation
Day took place on May 6 and was
sponsored by the SON Alumni
Association with funding from the
Johnson & Johnson Campaign for
Nursing’s Future.
More than 50 participants gath-ered
at the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center for breakfast with Dean
Linda Cronenwett. After spending
time together greeting old friends
and making new ones, attendees
chose to attend mini-sessions on
legal issues, genetics, finding med-ical
information on the Internet
and advancing the nursing career
based on his or her own experience
and interest. Many commented on
how exciting it was to have so many
generations of Carolina nurses shar-ing
and learning together again.
Graduates from each decade in the
school’s history were present, and
this made for a special Carolina
nursing environment, they said.
The day was a great event for the
student volunteers who helped man-age
the event as well. Heather Fund,
a senior in the 24-month BSN pro-gram,
said, “Being around alumni
and getting to know some of them
made me proud of my profession.
They were all so kind, and they had
great stories!”
After the morning educational
sessions, the group took a campus
walk to Carrington Hall where they
got a first-hand view of the con-struction
on the new building addi-tion.
Dr. Maggie Miller (MSN ’77),
assistant dean, led a lively discus-sion
with highlights about current
academic programs, research,
admissions statistics details about
the ongoing construction of the new
building addition. Dr. Rumay
Alexander, director of the Office of
Multicultural Affairs, also addressed
the group and discussed her efforts
to create the School’s diversity plan.
She stressed that the plan is inclu-sive
of alumni and that she would
be happy to be a resource for SON
alums.
Door prizes and lunch followed,
and participants were free to spend
time in Carrington or on campus.
Many alumni were surprised at the
changes going on within the School
and were happy that the tradition of
nursing excellence has continued at
Carolina.
Attendee Mary Ann Tormey (BSN
’88) said, “An alumni event like this
is a great way to provide CE credits,
a forum for networking among
nursing professionals with common
educational backgrounds, a captive
audience for fundraising for the
school, and a way for current
students to see what paths former
UNC grads have taken.”
18 CAROLINA NURSING
Nurses Appreciation Day
A Tribute to Our Alums with Support
from Johnson & Johnson
Alumnae Valerie Balestrieri (BSN ’90) and Rosemary Resler (BSN ’86)
enjoy lunch together.
Back to school! These
alumni enjoy a session
on the state of the
School with Assistant
Dean Maggie Miller.
EKG Analysis
Board members used their skills
to teach a section in the 14-month
BSN option curriculum. Association
President Tonya Rutherford
Hemming (BSN ’93, MSN ’01) pre-sented
a lecture on dysrhythmias
and EKG analysis to students. The
class then broke out into learning
lab groups where they were given
hands-on instruction and guidance.
These groups were led by board
members Derek Chrisco (BSN ’91),
Mary Holtschneider (BSN ’95) and
Courtney Rawls (BSN ’01). The
association also provided an EKG
resource booklet and calipers to
each student.
Clinical Associate Professor
Carol Durham, who coordinated the
program, noted how the program
was helpful beyond the normal
teaching experience. “The course
showed the students that alumni
had a vested interest in their suc-cess,”
she says. “Students were able
to ask questions of instructors about
the information content and about
their individual nursing experiences
and positions.”
The half-day session was mean-ingful
to the instructors as well.
Rutherford Hemming says of the
experience, “Teaching often allows
you to see the learning that takes
place in students—sometimes in
their faces, right in front of you!
When you see this development and
know you have played a small role
in their nursing career, it is the
greatest feeling in the world.”
Taking Some of the
Stress Out of the NCLEX
Remember the anxiety of taking
those dreaded “nursing boards”?
The BSN Class of 2004 had only a
short time to celebrate graduation
before they had to move on to
preparing for the NCLEX. To ease
some of pressure, the Alumni
Association brought back a group of
2003 graduates to share some tips
with the seniors.
This spring, Allison Berry, Laura
Correll and Jona Martino led a
panel discussion on preparing for
the NCLEX. The panel presented
their individual methods of study
and test taking tips.
A key focus area was reducing
stress. “You’re going to get stressed
out,” Correll told the group. “Just
go ahead and prepare for that feel-ing.
If you take the practice tests,
you’ll feel more comfortable.
Remember you���re graduating from
Carolina—you know your stuff!”
The panel was very informal and
students also took the opportunity to
ask the alumni for advice on transi-tioning
from nursing school to the
work world.
The idea for the panel came out
of the Alumni Association Board’s
annual meeting. Board member Dr.
Bonnie Angel (BSN ’79) suggested
that the group find a way to assist
students with the NCLEX to supple-ment
the information that the
School already provides. Students
are given the opportunity to attend
a pharmacology review and a week-long
test review session. These were
both highly recommended by the
panelists.
In 2003 the SON prepared 160
BSN students for the NCLEX, the
largest number in the state that
year. UNC was one of only two
schools in North Carolina to prepare
over 100 BSN students (East
Carolina University had 134 under-graduate
students write the exam
for the first time).
UNC’s passage rate for registered
nurses was among the highest in
the state, with 93% passing the
NCLEX on the first try, three percent
higher than the state’s average and
six percent higher than the nation-al.
You can check out the North
Carolina Board of Nursing’s web site
at http://www.ncbon.com/LicStat-
PassRates.asp to see more facts and
figures on how UNC’s nursing pro-gram
compared to others around
the state.
SUMMER 2004 19
ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Association Moves Into
New Teaching Role
The SON Alumni Association is committed to improving the student nursing
experience, which in the past has been accomplished through programs and
events. This year the Association’s Board of Directors took their commitment
a step further by creating an initiative to help educate in the classroom.
Courtney Rawls (BSN
’01), pictured at the
end of the table, leads
a lab on EKG analysis
for current students.
The SON Alumni Association is
proud to award four scholarships
each year to deserving students. The
2004 recipients received their
awards at a dinner in their honor at
Top of the Hill on Franklin Street.
Pictured here are SON Alumni
Association Board Secretary Meg
Gambrell (BSN ’01); scholarship
recipients Erin Seitz, a senior in the
24-month program, and Brooke
Bayse and Lori Dettmer, juniors in
the 24-month program; Not pic-tured
is recipient Katy McElroy, a
student in the 14-month program.
20 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NEWS
2004 Scholarship Recipients Announced
Triad-area alumni were given
the opportunity to participate in a
special continuing education pro-gram
in Winston Salem this spring.
Clinical Instructor Beth Lamanna
presented a lively presentation
called, “Epidemiology Update: Risk-
Communication-Real Threats?
What Can Public Health Do?” The
session was followed by an update of
SON news and activities by Dr.
Maggie Miller, assistant dean.
In addition to discounted con-tinuing
education and professional
information, the event was valuable
for getting to know fellow alumni in
the area. As Pat Hayes (BSN ’67)
said, “Best of all was the networking
opportunity and intergenerational
dialogue among ‘veteran’ graduates
of the 1960’s through to the recent
2003 graduates. I think all enjoyed
listening to the discussion of student
days at UNC and current nursing
workplace situations. The pride of
being a Carolina grad was clear
regardless of the generation!”
Alumni
Association
Takes
Continuing
Education
to the Triad
Alums from all different class years and nursing specialties came together for a
continuing education event in Winston-Salem recently.
SUMMER 2004 21
ALUMNI NEWS
Reunion Planning 101
SON classes have enjoyed lots of memorable reunions through the years. Many groups come together around
Alumni Day, and others have their own traditions. For example, the BSN Class of ’61 has a tradition of continuous
rotating reunions where the group meets in a different spot for each gathering; they have been to classmates’
homes in many different states through the years. The BSN Classes of ’55, ’56 and ’61 always manage to stay close
and get together frequently in different formal and informal settings.
Regardless of the particular style of the group, Carolina nurses have great reunions! Sometimes the task of
putting one together seems daunting, so below are a few tips from some of the experts who have put on recent
successful reunions. Ginger Weeks, Barbara Warren and Joanne Welborne, members of the BSN Class of ’63
reunion planning committee, shared their strategies and tips to help others plan a terrific reunion. All find that
the fun outweighs the work and there are actually lots of resources at your disposal.
Tip➊
Form a planning group. It helps to
have more than one person at the
helm to ensure that the workload is
shared. Additionally, more represen-tation
from different social groups
in the planning stages increases
attendance.
Tip➋
Use the SON Alumni Office as a
resource. They will provide contact
information to the planning group
and do any mailings needed for the
reunion. Additionally, the SON
Alumni Association provides
reunion grants of up to $100 to help
with expenses for reunions that are
planned in conjunction with
Alumni Weekend.
Tip➌
Personal contact is important.
Mailings get the word out initially,
but contacting classmates personal-ly
helps remind folks about the
event. The Class of ’63 planning
group divided up the roster and
called classmates to encourage
attendance.
Tip➍
Try to get a home base. Finding a
class member who lives in the area
to help with logistical planning is
ideal.
Tip➎
Plan events that suit the tastes of the
Class. In the case of the Class of ’63,
classmate Faye McNaull hosted the
group at her home for the main
reunion dinner. This allowed class
members to relax and catch up with
each other without having a set
ending time for the evening. Dean
Linda Cronenwett enjoyed stopping
by and taking part in the fun at
their reunion. Other weekend events
included lunch at the Rathskellar
and a chance for class members to
either go shopping at Southpoint
Mall or attend the UNC football
game.
Tip➏
Celebrate your history. For example,
’63 Classmate Peggy Wade had
copies made of photos from previ-ous
reunions for attendees. It is
always fun to look back and see
how things have changed, or stayed
the same! Another personal touch at
the ’63 reunion included handmade
centerpieces on each table, which
featured photos of the students in
their nursing school days.
Tip➐
Stay in touch. Encourage classmates
to send in their updated contact
information to the School. The
Alumni Affairs office will provide a
booklet of contact information for
all attendees at the reunion.
Sending in current information will
keep this listing accurate
Tip➑
Follow up and plan for the future.
The Class of ’63 sent out a recap of
the weekend, photos and updated
contact information for classmates.
They also discussed ideas for the
next reunion.
A class reunion is a wonderful
time to enjoy special memories
and celebrate the excitement of
joining together with classmates
again. If you would like to put
these tips into action and serve as
a reunion planner for your own
class, please contact Anne Webb at
Anne_Webb@unc.edu or (919)
866-4619. Alumni Weekend is
coming up on October 29-30.
Building … for the health of North Carolina people
To our Alumni and Friends,
The concrete is being poured and the magenta-wrapped electrical cable
is laid on each level of our new building. Each day brings the image
of students, faculty and staff who will make this space home closer to
reality. We watch as each floor takes shape…and hope.
Today, we are $1.8 million short of our goal. As we plan to equip and
furnish this building, this shortfall will limit our ability to continue to
offer the best nursing education possible without your help. We are
weighing priorities and making tough decisions about the level of technology that will be installed in
classrooms, laboratories and offices. Which skills laboratories will receive enhanced or basic equipment?
Which conference rooms will be outfitted with new or worn furniture? Which rooms will remain vacant
until there is funding to install what is needed to occupy them?
■ A clinical education skills laboratory will give student nurses a simulated patient care experience
that is as close to reality as is possible, better preparing them for the demands they will face
immediately upon graduation. Your gift will help us replace outdated, worn equipment and
hospital beds.
■ A distance learning lab will offer UNC access to RNs who want to earn the BSN. Your gift will open
the best educational experience to all who have the desire and talent.
■ An undergraduate computer laboratory will offer the complex technology that will continue to
make Carolina nursing students among the most valued in all health care settings. Your gift will
help us buy the learning tools that students depend on to become outstanding nurses.
Will you consider what you can do now? Will you make a 5-year pledge to name a laboratory, meeting
room or faculty office? Will you add your name to the brick walkway? Will you think about what a
“significant” gift means to you and make a gift at that level?
It is our future nurses and the people they will be caring for who will be grateful to you.
You have our thanks,
Norma Hawthorne
Director of Advancement
22 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
“The SON has been my
professional home since
1986. And like any
home should be, it has
been for me a place to
thrive: where bonds are
forged, ideas are nur-tured,
imagination
takes flight, and aca-demic
dreams come
true. I am pleased to
have the opportunity,
through the Carolina
First campaign, to
help Carolina become
home to others.”
DR. MARGARETE SANDELOWSKI
Boshamer Distinguished
Professor of Nursing
“It has been said, ‘Give
and you shall receive.’
The UNC School of
Nursing provided the
framework and foun-dation
for me to
become a professional
caregiver, empowering
me to achieve my
career goals as a U.S.
Navy nurse, as well as
to develop the confi-dence
to meet many
other life challenges.
Through supporting the
School of Nursisng, the
joy of seeing the enthu-siastic
young men and
women pursue their
nursing careers is the
best of all ‘thank yous.’
It is exhilarating to
have the opportunity to
encourage and support
these students in fulfill-ing
their dreams
through quality nurs-ing
education.”
JO-ANNE TROWBRIDGE MARTIN
BSN ’69
Evelyn Farmer Alexander BSN ’56
Raleigh, NC
William Jennings Booth, Jr.
Apex, NC
Greer Cawood
Winston-Salem, NC
Paul Chused
Kinston, NC
Dr. Franklin Clark, III
Fayetteville, NC
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN ’77
Wilmington, NC
Dr. Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67
Carrboro, NC
Dr. Terry Graedon
Durham, NC
Angela Hall
Salisbury, NC
Karen Coley Harrison, BSN ’65
Chapel Hill, NC
Dr. Patty Hill, BSN ’69
Chapel Hill, NC
Pamela E. Jameson, BSN ’76
Elk Park, NC
Steve Martin
Jackson Springs, NC
Jean Hix McDonald, BSN ’83
Chapel Hill, NC
Joyce Page
Durham, NC
Gary Park
Chapel Hill, NC
Margaret Ferguson Raynor BSN ’67
Garner, NC
President of the Board
Gwen Russell
Fayetteville, NC
Dr. Janet Askew Sipple, MSN ’70
Bethlehem, PA
Carolyn Underwood, BSN ’79
Cary, NC
Charles DeWitt Watts
Durham, NC
HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBERS
Audrey Booth
MSN ’56
Chapel Hill, NC
Carolyn White London
BSN ’56
Durham, NC
Thomas L. Norris, Jr.
Raleigh, NC
Mary Perry Ragsdale (deceased)
Frances Hill Fox (deceased)
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Linda R. Cronenwett
PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Norma Hawthorne
Executive Director
Brad Volk
Assistant Dean
SUMMER 2004 23
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
SON Foundation congratulates new
UNC Hospitals President Gary Park
Gary Park, a SON Foundation
director, was recently named
president of UNC Hospitals by
Dr. William Roper, chief executive
officer of UNC Health Care.
“I am a strong advocate for
nurses and you have my commit-ment
to continue to serve on the
SON Foundation,” Park said at the
April board meeting, noting the
increased demands on his time.
“What this School does is important
for us.”
Park came from Rex Health-care,
where he served as president
and CEO. Under Park’s leadership,
Rex has been a strong supporter of
SON programs, including Nursing
Exploration Week and graduation
ceremonies.
New directors named for
four year terms include William
Jennings Booth (AB ’54) from Apex,
NC; Angela Hall, CPA, Salisbury, NC;
and Jean Hix McDonald (BSN ’83)
from Chapel Hill.
The Foundation Board has
responsibility for the SON endow-ment
and donor support. It
includes alumni, parents, friends
and civic leaders.
SON Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors
Park
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNC HEALTH CARE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MARKETING OFFICE
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24 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
On behalf of SON graduates
and their families, we thank
you for your support!
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Rex Healthcare
University of North Carolina Hospitals
SON Graduation
2004 Patrons
Nursing Exploration Week 2004 Sponsors
These organizations generously provided underwriting and scholarships for talented high school students throughout
North Carolina to attend a one-week residency in Chapel Hill. Their investment to encourage future nurses will help
alleviate shortages and improve patient care.
Duke University
Health System
High Point
Regional Hospital
Rex Healthcare
UNC Hospitals
Building Campaign
Update
Carolina Quick Facts
• By 2020, 18,000 RN vacancies
in NC are projected
• Aging people with chronic
illness will strain the health-care
system
• Qualified students are turned
away because of space limits
and faculty shortages
SON Building Progress Report
• New nursing addition slated
to open spring 2005
• $1.8 million short of $20.8
million total building cost
• At risk: no funds to buy lab
equipment, desks & essentials
• At risk: the best environment
for learning and practice
What can you do to help?
• Inscribe a brick
• Name an office or lab
• Make your Class Gift
• Honor a nurse colleague or
friend
• Make a memorial gift
• Enjoy tax savings, increase cur-rent
income and show your
love for Carolina with a
planned gift
• Add to your current gift or
pledge
• Do something today
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DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Special “University Day” Campaign
Make a “University Day” $200 gift to
the SON Building Fund between NOW
and October 30, 2004 (Alumni Day).
You’ll receive our thanks with a
signed, limited-edition copy of
“University Day” by artist Ed Starnes.
This is a special campaign. If you’ve
already made a gift, this is a great
incentive to add to your commitment
to the SON and help us with the new
building. If you’ve been thinking
about making a gift, perhaps this
premium will spur you to action!
Your tax deductible gift will help
us safeguard the future of a great
nursing program.
✓Yes, I want to make my gift to the “University Day” Campaign
Enclosed is my $200 gift to the SON Building Fund. I’m looking forward to receiving my gift from you:
a signed, limited-edition reproduction of “University Day,” an original watercolor by Ed Starnes. The
painting, a gift of Ramelle (BSN ’55) and Ed Starnes (AB ’54), will hang in the new SON building addition.
Name __________________________________________ Class Year _______________
Address ________________________________________________________________
City/State/ZIP ___________________________________________________________
Home Phone ___________________________ E-mail ____________________________
Method of Payment: ❑ Check ❑ VISA ❑ MasterCard
Please make your check payable to SON Foundation, Inc.
Charge Card # ____________________________________ Exp. Date ________________
Signature ______________________________________________________________
Mail check or credit card information to Norma Hawthorne, Director of Advancement,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, CB #7460, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460.
Questions? Contact Norma_Hawthorne@unc.edu or (919) 966-4619.
1969
Dr. Karen L. Williams (BSN)
recently was elected the first female
chief of staff for the more than 500
person medical staff at Bayfront
Medical Center in St. Petersburg, FL,
where she serves as the medical
director of rehabilitation services.
Last October she was given the peer
selected AJ Gorday Award for Medical
Excellence and Service.
1970
Eileen Cetrangolo (BSN) is
working in orthopedics at Thoms
Rehabilitation Hospital in Asheville,
NC.
1980
Donna Winston Laney (BSN)
recently passed the ANCC certifica-tion
exam in nurse informatics,
making her one of only approxi-mately
1,000 nurses certified in
informatics in the nation. Laney cur-rently
works in systems and business
operations for surgical services at
Carolinas HealthCare System near
Charlotte, NC.
1986
Leesa Thomas (BSN) has been
selected to attend the North Carolina
Center for Nursing’s 2004 Institute
for Nursing Excellence. The institute
is a week-long retreat to reward
direct-care nurses across the state for
their work and to encourage their
leadership abilities. Up to 30 nurses
are chosen for the honor each year.
1992
Lisa Weaver Bull (BSN) and her
husband, David, are the proud par-ents
of their first child, Carolina
Grace, born October 5, 2003.
1994
Michelle Mercer Canfield (BSN)
graduated this past December from
East Carolina University’s family
nurse practitioner program. She cur-rently
serves as a clinical instructor
at ECU and lives in Raleigh, NC,
with her husband George and son
Jonathan.
Audrey Nelson (PhD) was honored
with the University of Nebraska
College of Nursing Outstanding
Alumnus Award in 2003 by the col-lege’s
alumni association.
1995
Nikki L. Eldreth (BSN) and her
husband, Stephen Paul Cherry, wel-comed
their first child, Katherine
Sloan, to the world on January 20.
1998
Rebecca Jones Martin (RN-BSN)
recently completed UNC-Chapel
Hill’s family nurse practitioner pro-gram,
graduating with an MSN in
2003. She continues to live in
Norlina with Bobby and her daugh-ter,
Sierra.
2002
Dr. Susan J. Appel (PhD) is an
assistant professor in the graduate
division of the University of Alabama
School of Nursing. Her primary
teaching responsibilities are in the
acute care nurse practitioner pro-gram.
We want to hear
from you!
To update your address or to
let Carolina Nursing share
your new job, new address, or
special accomplishment with
fellow alums, please use the
form below.
26 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NOTES
WHAT’S NEWWithYou?
Keeping up with each other is hard to do these days. Please let Carolina Nursing share your news! Whether
it’s a new job, special accomplishment, or an addition to your family, we’ll be happy to get the word out for you.
Name (please include maiden name): Class Year:
❑ My address has changed. My new address is:
News:
Please send news to:
Anne Webb,
Alumni Association Director
School of Nursing
UNC-Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
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July 2004
9th Annual Summer Institute on Qualitative Research July 12–16
Instrument Development Institute July 19–23
August 2004
Advanced Principles of Teaching in Nursing August 2–5
Writing for Publication with Elizabeth Tornquist August 20
September 2004
Fundamentals of Clinical Research for Clinical Research Sept. 7–Nov. 30
Associates and Clinical Study Coordinators
Nursing Update RN Refresher Course Sept. 8–Dec. 8
Diabetes Management in Children, Part 2 September 10
Legal Update: Avoiding Nursing Malpractice September 24
Cutting Edge: Focus on GI Disorders September 30
October 2004
Bad Bugs: Infectious Disease Update for Nurses October 7
14th Annual Art of Breastfeeding Conference October 11–13
■ University Day October 12
CPAN/CAPA Review Course October 16
Clinical Teaching October 23
Take a Breath: Respiratory Update for Nurses October 29
■ SON Alumni Association Board Meeting October 29
■ Alumni Day October 30
November 2004
Pediatric Forensic Course November 3–5
Wound Management Conference November 4
Long Term Care Institute November 9–10
4th Annual Pediatric Pain Conference November 12
CCRN Review Course November 17–18
■ SON Foundation Board Meeting November 18
Time Management for Busy Nurses November 19
December 2004
■ Commencement December 19
April 2005
■ SON Foundation Board Meeting April 21
■ SON New Building Dedication April 29
■ Distinguishes University and School of Nursing events from Continuing Education events
Calendar of Events
For more information on
School events, contact the
Office of Advancement.
E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-4619
FAX: (919) 843-8241
http://nursing.unc.edu
For more information or to
register for a continuing
education program, contact
the School of Nursing Office
of Continuing Education.
E-mail: nursing_ce@unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-3638
FAX: (919) 966-0870
nursing.unc.edu/lifelong/
index.html
Building a Walkway to the Future...
One Brick at a Time
I am very proud to be a graduate of the
UNC School of Nursing because of the solid
foundation my nursing education gave
me and because of the school’s wonderful
reputation in nursing education.
I also appreciate the outreach efforts
toward alumni, including this opportunity
to name a part of the School to honor the
memory of my middle son.
COLLEEN LEE, BSN 1973
My classmates and I decided to buy a
brick because of the fond memories
we have from nursing school. Just as
the School of Nursing helped us pave
our own futures, this brick will help
us to pave the walkway for future
nurses. It is our way of saying thank
you.
MEG GAMBRELL, BSN 2001
B R I C K O R D E R F O R M
Name Class Year
Address
City State ZIP
Yes, I want to order: ❏ 1 Brick $500 $167 pledge deposit
❏ 2 Bricks $1,000 $334 pledge deposit
❏ 3 Bricks $1,500 $500 pledge deposit
❏ Other amount:_______ Total:_______
❏ I am enclosing a gift for the full amount.
❏ I am making a 3-year pledge and enclosing a pledge deposit.
Please charge my: ❏ Visa ❏ Mastercard
Account #_____________________________ Exp. Date_______
Signature___________________________________________
Thank you for making this gift and for
your support of the SON.
Special Campaigns Steering Committee
Denise Taylor Darden, BSN ’77 Jean Hix McDonald, BSN ’83
Nancy Freeman, BSN ’73 Carolyn Underwood, BSN ’79
Questions? Contact Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or Anne_Webb@unc.edu.
THE UNIVERSITY
of NORTH CAROLINA
at CHAPEL HILL
As I thought about how I could help
the new SON building, I began to
realize how many nurses there were
in my family! I had never stopped to
think about it before and I decided
that a brick would be a great way to
remember and honor them all.
ROBIN HARPER, BSN 1986
Please return this form to Anne Webb, Advancement Office, School of Nursing, CB# 7460, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
Add your brick message to the walkway here.
Up to 3 lines, with a maximum of 16 characters per line. One form per brick, please (duplicate for each additional brick).
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Come join your classmates and friends
for unbeatable food, fun and football!
The new building addition will be near
completion, so get a sneak peak before
it’s open to all!
Reunion classes include the classes of 1959, 1964,
1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999
Registration begins this fall, so keep an eye
on your mailbox for more information!
Save the Date!
A L U M N I DAY 2004
Saturday, October 30, 2004 at Carrington Hall
Contact Anne Webb,
associate director
of alumni affairs, at
(919) 966-4619 or
Anne_Webb@unc.edu
with any questions or
for help with planning
your reunion.
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